Word: kitschyness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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My, my. We're talking about an amusement park here, not Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study. Disney builds playgrounds for children -- loud, clangy, vulgar, kitschy playgrounds. One might as well denounce comic books for not being literature. Or Davy Crockett movies for vulgarizing Tennessee history -- and sentimentalizing bears. How...
One year from now, Americans and Vietnamese will celebrate, if that is the word, the 20th anniversary of the fall of Saigon. It is safe to predict that we will take the occasion to ask ourselves, again, why we went to war, why we lost, what it was we lost...
And the worst show of nepotism since the abysmal Sofia Coppolla stared in her daddy's "The Godfather: Part III" has got to be the casting of the director's wife, Madlyn. The parallel structure is nothing but kitschy and is certainly not worth her laughable performance. In her big...
Serious connoisseurs of the surrealistically kitschy visit Graceland Wedding Chapel, where Norm Jones, the Elvis impersonator in residence, is both pleased and bewildered by the sudden popularity of the wedding ceremonies he performs for $250. Heavy-metal star Jon Bon Jovi got married there in 1989; Phil Joanou, director of...
Long before this generation of young hipsters started reveling in the Vegas gestalt, certain intellectuals were taking seriously the city's no-holds- barred urban style. It was 25 years ago that a little-known architect and professor, Robert Venturi, returned to Yale with his two dozen student acolytes after...