Word: kitsched
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...Dick, has now carried his war against fiction behind the enemy's lines. Effectively disguised as a short-story writer, Fiedler turns out, in Pull Down Vanity, a collection of tales of the kind favored lately by modish literary quarterlies and intellectualoid slicks. They constitute the sort of kitsch fiction-as stylized as the whodunit or science fiction-in which every thought, character and experience is as nauseating as possible...
...brisk under-the-counter sale. It could even be useful in the schools, if they have not entirely abandoned the study of language. More work, however, remains to be done. What can the innocent reader make of the recent literary criticism without an entry under ANGST, SYNCRETIC, AMBIVALENCE, KITSCH Or ENAGEMENT, and how is he expected to follow W. H. Auden's recent criticism without the lowdown on CHARISMA...
...cloaked figure of Death in The Seventh Seal. But at other times, particularly in his comedies, the clichés are the devices of a back-country Ernst Lubitsch; in A Lesson in Love, the last-minute, sappily symbolic entrance of a small boy dressed as Cupid is pure Kitsch...
...first-night hoopla at Munich's Gloria Palast was pure Hollywood-grunting cops wrestling with crowds, limousines bulging with black-tied men and mink-draped starlets. As for the movie, it was a blatant rehash of Grand Hotel (1932). It was, sneered the Süddeutsche Zeitung, "pretentious kitsch [trash], a perfection of mediocrity, apotheosis of the single-entendre. Everywhere the box-office sledge hammer. In short, a German film...
...would not lead to the disappearance of the commercialism which Madison Avenue has come to symbolize. There have even been recent indications that the Avenue itself is restive about the present situation. The workers in mass media labor to produce what the Germans call kitsch, vulgarization of the better elements in a native culture...