Word: kitschyness
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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...
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...