Word: lowbrow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gabler's superb, richly detailed portrait of the grade-school dropout and vainglorious, third-rate ex-hoofer who, more than any other gossipist, invented the modern celebrity industry. His syndicated "colyums" and brassy, red-baiting broadcasts to "Mr. and Mrs. America and all the ships at sea" shaped U.S. lowbrow culture for the 1930s and '40s. When he died unlamented in 1972, Winchell was a lonely and bilious has-been, still clinging to the shabby remnants of his column...
...cynical world view: people are motivated by greed, stupidity and sexual avarice. Director John Dahl gets it all right in his mean, hilarious tale of a drifter (Nicolas Cage) mistaken for a contract killer. The title town is off all the moral maps, and so -- deliriously, invigoratingly -- is this lowbrow, low-budget assault...
What capital could be made of Van Doren on lowbrow TV. And what capital he could make of it. For Charlie Van Doren was overwhelmed by his bloodlines, needed to succeed somewhere on his own. And this new medium, despised by his family and their friends, seemed perfect. He could become a hero by co-opting it for truth and light. The producers persuaded him to accept answers in advance by telling him how much good he was doing the cause of education with his presence. And the schmuck (to borrow a word from Herbie Stempel's lexicon) believed them...
...American Express is staking its future on a new set of credit cards with an accent on lowbrow utility and coupon-clipping value. This week it will begin to roll out some dozen cards, each one pitched at a different segment of the consumer market. Some cards will bear the exclusive imprimatur of AmEx and will boast waived fees; others will share billing with other companies that offer a range of enticements, like frequent-flyer miles and car discounts. All will offer revolving credit at rates expected to rival AmEx's less tony rivals. And where business travelers were once...
...finding such lowbrow literature with the oh-so-academic confines of Harvard Square is not so easy. While you can find a copy of Foucault's History of Sexuality almost anywhere, few bookstores carry anything resembling romance novel. Perhaps because most courses do not include any romance novels on their reading lists, a Harvard Square search yields these results...