Word: kitsched
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...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...
...sure, the company's dances bear about the same relationship to authentic folk art as do, say, the Irish Songs of Beethoven. They represent, rather, exalted and stylized kitsch-a form of pop ballet in which folk elements are woven into a formal dance structure created by the company's founder and artistic director, Bolshoi-trained Igor Moiseyev, 64. A prolific choreographer (more than 200 separate works in all), Moiseyev has brought along three new items for the current tour...
...whimsy that attempts to fill the time frequently falters. Charlie's grim pursuit of Best Speller status could use some comic-strip relief. And an interlude of Schroeder playing Beethoven's Pathètique falls into the old Fantasia trap, overly baited with pictorial gewgaws and kitsch...
...Kitsch: The World of Bad Taste by Gillo Dorfles. 313 pages. Universe. $10. A 16-inch-high statue of Jesus Christ with a clock in the belly is unquestionably kitsch-a German word meaning "rubbish." A six-inch plastic statue, of the same subject blessing an automobile dashboard is questionable kitsch, though the decision, like beauty, depends on the sophisticated eye of the beholder. Gillo Dorfles of the University of Milan has excavated the historical and contemporary worlds of religion, art, architecture, advertising and movies for kitsch artifacts...
...consider: Mazursky has directed the picture in the best Hollywood comedy tradition. A superficial tradition, yes-but not without its own special kind of wit and pleasantries. Like Robert Aldrich (in such kitsch as The Legend of Lylah Clare ). Mazursky has learned how to give vulgarity a good name...