Word: highbrow
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...leek and the miniature eggplant. By the end of the 1980s, thanks to their heroic efforts, every Midwestern town sported a fern- filled "Maude's" or "Davio's" offering white chocolate mousse and blackened fish. For those who could afford to eat fashionably, dinner replaced the theater as the highbrow event of the evening -- if not the only fun part of the night...
...Testament. They blend U.S. and European styles of filmmaking; they bring novelistic devices to the movie mall. And in Pulp Fiction, a multipart tribute to the hard-boiled books and films of American mid-century, he has devised a sprawling, sturdy canvas that accommodates the high-octane and the highbrow...
Show Business: Quentin Tarantino's enthralling Pulp Fiction combines the high octane and the highbrow...
Friedman traces contemporary zines to two sources. One route passes through the highbrow beat poetry of the 1940s and '50s that, because of its small audience, perfected the art of producing the small-run, beautifully crafted publications called chapbooks. The other follows the science-fiction press back to its pulp roots in the late '30s when fans of this literary genre circulated rough, mimeographed copies of their own voluminous stories, commentary and manifestos...
Ultimately, no one wants his or her reputation cheapened. And that is why some celebrities, even those with reputations that weren't exactly highbrow to begin with, are still reluctant to do infomercials. For example, who is the celebrity most sought after to appear in an infomercial? She has posed topless for Playboy, Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone. But Cindy Crawford still says...