Word: kitsched
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...imaginative bliss. And if one happens to find sense in these propositions, it is hard to take all that seriously the marginal artists whose work Alloway has selected. Their work may have this or that to do with signs, but on aesthetic grounds it varies between limpness and indulgent kitsch, typified by the show's California contingent, Joe Goode, Ed Ruscha and Mel Ramos...
Those lines have a ring as old as the novel itself, which was born as romantic kitsch for women when Samuel Richardson's Pamela: or Virtue Rewarded was published in 1740. But A Kiss From Satan was written this year and, even in the midst of a pornography boom, it and similar well-scrubbed (though timidly suggestive) paperbacks for women are spinning a new fortune for a Toronto-based publisher, Harlequin Enterprises. The firm's profits have more than tripled every year since 1970, and now stand at $1.6 million on revenues of $15 million. Harlequin, which...
...hick cousin of all the imaginary and perfect townships that architects from Filarete in the 15th century to Boullée in the 18th wrought from their schematic, authoritarian fantasies but never managed to build. Unlike Kublai Khan's pleasure dome, it exists on a plane of unremitting kitsch, sustained by the most advanced technology ever brought to the service of entertainment...
Jonathan. a German vampire flick that barely qualifies as kitsch. The film is tinted nauseous blue, the camera pans at a nauseous pace. If that isn't sickening enough, the movie lacks everything from narrative to a personna--to a reason for being. Harvard Square...
...first full year in operation. In the first few months of this year, attendance jumped another 8.6% as millions more plunked down an average $10 a head to trundle down superclean "Main Street" into the most audacious melange of futuristic urban planning and nostalgic cutsie-poo kitsch ever conceived...