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Remember that Arab sheik who set Beverly Hills agog with his mint-green, late baroque-kitsch mansion? Now his father, Sheik Mohammad Al-Fassi, 47, head of an international shipping company, is involved in a new episode of Arabian-Angeleno misunderstanding...
...Many of the night places are for members only, with fees and dues ranging as high as $1,000 a year. Many have good-and expensive-restaurants and such added recreational lures as pool, pinball and backgammon rooms. In many, the furnishings can best be described as haul kitsch: kaleidoscopic lighting, silver vińyl banquettes, tented nooks, birch trees hung with twinkly Italian lights, jungles of synthetic plants, Plexiglas floors. Not a few, however, are decorated in notably good taste; and some seem to have been designed by the people who went on to make Star Wars...
...clergy sought power as guardians of art, literature and refinement. America's sentimental education began. Feeling became more prized than thinking. Popular literature grew trashier at the same time that magazine and book publishing was burgeoning. Narcissism flourished, and with it a greater appetite for the products and kitsch of popular culture...
...fabric of the Russian avantgarde, from Mayakovsky's poetry to Eisensiein's films, with their complex rhythms and shuttling montages. Revolulion provided a subject matter for unexpected artists. Who, for insiance, would have supposed that Marc Chagall, whose studio for the past 35 years has been a kitsch factory producing the same sugary brides, bouquels and flying lovers, was in his youth capable of an image like Forward, 1917, with its arrowy figure leaping againsl a bright red quadrilateral...
Somehow, the old kitsch was missing. Oh, Chevy Chase took a dive-and i a giant envelope from a hairy Kongian hand. Marty Feldman smashed a statuette to smithereens. Richard Pryor yelled, "Hey, everybody in Peoria, it's me." But basically, to the chagrin of camp followers everywhere, they played it straight, even to the point of inviting Norman Mailer and Lillian Hellman to give awards. Missing were Bob Hope, John Wayne and most of Old Hollywood; New Hollywood (whose spokesperson increasingly seems to be Jane Fonda) was so in evidence that even onetime McGovernite Warren Beatty observed that...