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Once beloved of Communist central planners as well as progressive Western architects at the dawn of the space age, revolving restaurants may forever be considered kitsch. But given the fad for all things retro, their popularity seems to have come, well, full circle. The sweeping urban views they offer are also more dramatic today than in the 1960s. Here are three of the best?use them as an icebreaker on that first date, or as behavioral therapy for your acrophobe friends...
...kind of horrifying kitsch,” he recalls. “I used it in the book as an example of how attitudes towards violence have changed over the twentieth century. The idea is that you can die for your country and you are really happy. You get to clutch a sexy angel. Nowadays, we [think of] Saving Private Ryan... there is a general repugnance towards...
...None of us remembered the Enchanted Tiki Room as it now exists ?under new management.? I guess Disney felt the ticky-tacky tikis needed an update, and now there are hints of rap instead of ?Hawaiian War Chant.? Bad mistake. The kitsch was right at the heart of the old room?s charm - it was cheesier than the Vegas it parodied, and therein rested its modest charm...
...usually do encores,” said Kulash when they returned. So instead they performed a karaoke version of “C-C-C-C-Cinnamon Lips,” lip-syncing and dancing in a style that owed more to Janet than ‘N Sync. Kitsch? No doubt. Fun? Only if you have a sense of humor...
...usual, the Onion had it right. The satirical paper ran an article in which the "U.S. Dept. of Retro" warned that because of Gen X hipsters' fixation on nostalgic kitsch, "we may run entirely out of past." Recycled culture is becoming a staple of other networks like Trio and E!, and sources of retro are becoming more recent and repetitive. On a recent afternoon, VH1 had talking heads snarkily dissecting Enrique Iglesias and t.A.T.u. videos on All Access: Most Awesome Makeouts. Four hours later, talking heads on VH1's All Access: Awesomely Bad Videos were snarkily dissecting the same...