Word: kitsched
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...majestically ambitious attempt to isolate, define and synthesize a thousand years of attitudes about dying, burying, grieving and remembering. Ariès has burrowed through centuries of literature, folklore, religious history and civic and private documents. He has filled his eye with cemetery architecture, iconography, art and funeral kitsch. His conclusions: a millennium of living and dying in the West can be understood in five models...
...culture and values of the 17th century. Richard Wilbur broke with tradition by translating Tartuffe into English, but many producers still cling to the idea that the rhyming script demands delivery in a dusty package. The Boston Shakespeare Company's production has, in some ways, smothered Tartuffe with theatrical kitsch, motivated, it seems, by concern with maintaining the ill-conceived authenticity...
...their recollections, mostly expressed without bitterness, but not without hurt. Virtually every man was made to understand, on his first contact with the teachers and critics who guarded the doors of the art world, that representational art was not to be taken seriously, and that art depicting cowboys was kitsch, so corny as to be laughable...
...Clash. Of the seven government-run radio stations in Moscow, two play rock from abroad; the music gets no more raucous than that of the Eagles. The stations also boost home-grown talent. To a Westerner, Soviet rock sounds like a not entirely successful hybrid of imported kitsch, slicked-up folk melodies and a touch of Russian soul. "Soviet pop music has absorbed contemporary rhythms, but it has remained something individual in its musical phrasing," insists Lev Leshchenko, whose baritone soared above massed strings and a choir on one of the country's biggest hits, Day of Victory...
Americans have a friskily self-destructive habit of turning even their best impulses into junk and kitsch; a Beverly Hills hair salon lately had eight models in tank tops and khaki trousers parading around the shop carrying flags and sporting new "military" hair styles. The entrepreneur turns militarism into a profitable fad. Love of country, by such associations, comes to seem vaguely sick and stupid...