Word: kitsched
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...What a relief," she confided to her New York Post readers, "to write at last that a fashion collection is frankly, definitely and completely hideous." Chimed in the Guardian's Alison Adburgham: "A tour de force of bad taste . . . nothing could exceed the horror of this exercise in kitsch." The Daily Telegraph: "Nauseating"; France-Soir: "A great farce"; Le Figaro: "Un long gag." Women's Wear Daily, once Yves's leading fan, called his work "poor" and urged him to "shake off the weirdo and kooky influences." Others blamed Good Chum Andy Warhol for the campier aspects...
...turned into the sniffles and sobs to which Love Story reduces all its victims. For we could laugh at the Paramount corporate mind all we wanted, and yet still had to admit that Paramount had tricked us into seeing its film. And, luxuriating in the successful kitsch of it all, the makers of Love Story were hardly about to say they were sorry...
...spangled architectural blunder of our time." Centers for the arts in New York, Washington, and Atlanta arouse her ire with their timid unwillingness to assert conscious modernity. Her criticism also strikes forcefully at the destruction of architecturally significant structures; she favors tasteful preservations with a social purpose, not reconstructed kitsch...
...wife. (Joe and his spouse's social habits prove totally incomprehensible to the affluent couple-and vice versa.) Granted this device is as old as time; still, it has served movies well, from such American Depression comedies as Frank Capra's It Happened One Night to such recent sophisticated Kitsch as the current Mick Jagger Performance...
...clean-cut expression is "the epitome of this whole, sickening, mechanical, little-boy-at-heart generation." Goring, the son of a waitress, is rendered among his looted art and phony coat of arms as a preposterous sham. In fact, Reck saw the whole Third Reich as ludicrous kitsch compounded of dueling-club romanticism, gymnastics and "a touch of Hegel...