Word: kitschyness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even without the Harvard jokes, the script is funny--kitschy, but funny. The play is described in the program as "a late-20th-century response to the Elizabethan masterpiece," Doctor Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe. The plot has no surprises: a previously upstanding citizen and scholar sells his soul to the...
The upper store is filled with religious articles and knick-knacks, a jumble of the kitschy and the sacred.
Tuesday afternoon, Kansas City Municipal airport. I am soaking my frustration over a delayed flight at one of those kitschy Cheers-imitation restaurants, when approached by a sun-burnt, 40ish man named Frank, one of the 60 or so Nebraska fans passing through the airport after their trip to Miami...
Wishman's career bean making films in nudist campus. This was her first gimmick. Her gimmicks continued to include Chesty Morgan, the woman with the 73" bus line; films which acted out the worst of the Bible's sins: incest, rape, murder; and the twentieth-century's modern medical break...
Of all the activities at the new parks, the biggest draw is miniature golf. The high-tech courses, which boast indigo-tinted waterfalls and animated jungle creatures, are a far cry from the concrete dinosaurs and creaky windmills that made these kitschy creations an icon of America's vacation landscape...