Word: kitschyness
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"There are Chileans jamming the blues with Cambodians; Eskimos dancing alongside Aborigines. It's real and it's a parody; it's superficial, kitschy, deceiving, fun, invigorating, debate-sparking. Maybe, just maybe, it's what we are."
Across the Square in a pink stucco building with kitschy '70s decor, the Hong Kong on Mass Ave. serves traditional Americanized Chinese favorites: combination specials, Peking Ravioli, Beef and Broccoli. Open until 2 a.m. every night but Monday, the frequently rowdy Kong is a great place to catch a late...
The late 19th century art audience, especially in America, liked "puzzle pictures" -- images that told a hidden story. Still life was a standard vehicle for these. It was the end of an older tradition, that of the allegorical table piece, the vanitas paintings that were so popular in the Netherlands...
Huge, hideous, kitschy, but popular nonetheless, these monuments to commercialism are an endangered species:
As architects began rediscovering the virtues of color and history and whimsy a decade ago, the buildings that resulted were often derided as cartoonish exercises in kitschy nostalgia. Disneyesque became a standard pejorative applied to the work of such post-Modernists as Michael Graves and Robert A.M. Stern. Now, rather...