Word: kitsched
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...speaks on cultural affairs, is truly a wonder. Here he is, prating and preening like a parrot on a stump about the need to renew American civilization. This is the guy who hates the '60s but reincarnates them in his 40-acres-and-a-laptop Utopianism; who thinks kitsch "futurologists" like Alvin and Heidi Toffler are gurus and that a fund-raising cultist like Arianna Huffington is an intellectual. He filled his cable-TV sermons about "Renewing American Civilization" with brazen plugs for corporations that contributed to his funding operation, GOPAC. He wants to destroy the national endowments while promoting...
Where we once considered the metaphysics of Athens and Jerusalem, today we are mosquitoes to the lights of Las Vegas and Hollywood. And though we may pretend otherwise, we're more interested in raising the consciousness of kitsch than of ourselves or of our parents. We'd rather know the names of the children from Eight is Enough than the birthdays of our friends...
...leading family-resort destination, with theme parks, water parks and high-tech arcades in nearly every new hotel. And where families go, wholesome entertainment follows. That's one reason the Flamingo Hilton, the house that gangster Bugsy Siegel built, hired the Rockettes, whose high kicking and higher kitsch remind us that their brand of dance is as much a part of 20th century culture as anything choreographed by Balanchine or Berkeley...
...Told in kitsch...
...Maestro has filled his backyard with cow sculpture, created hundreds of clay cadillacs (the modern cowboy's horse), painted with air brushes and fabric paint and appliqued sequins and playing cards onto his works. Though the work does a very good impression of kitsch, it is distinguished by its relentless variety and Gaxiola's unique, informed stance towards the art World...