Word: lowbrow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...interactive soap operas and all the rest. The only people who weren't plugged in were those pointy heads who never owned a TV set in the first place. I saw one of them the other day, walking outside, making a fuss over the flowers. Hey, I'm no lowbrow. I used to go to the movies...
These are not the sort of shows that will inspire encomiums from Viewers for Quality Television (though Carradine's slow-motion kick-fighting in Kung Fu probably deserves a camp Emmy). But they are the kind of lowbrow, meat-and- potatoes fare that the networks have all but abandoned, largely because their stunts and action scenes are so costly to shoot. Hour time periods on the networks today are more likely to be filled with magazine shows and "soft" character dramas like L.A. Law and Northern Exposure...
...daily litany of lowbrow sexual innuendo, anatomical comparisons and coarse ethnic stereotyping may endear him to a surging army of sophomoric radio listeners, but not to the Federal Communications Commission. For the second time in two months, broadcasts by schlock jock Howard Stern have drawn FCC fines. This time, however, the commission upped the stakes by fining Stern's bosses at Infinity Broadcasting a record $600,000 for the "indecent" material, though it stopped short of barring Infinity's planned purchase of three new stations. The FCC also warned that any such future violations could lead to a loss...
...these supertroopers running around the U.S. as a rogue police force. It's a whopper, all right. But Jean- Claude Van Damme is appealing as a "UniSol" whose memories of a previous life recur and lead him into rebellion. Roland Emmerich's film may be nothing more than lowbrow, high-cal entertainment, but with the action genre now encrusted with dubious aspirations (Alien 3, Batman Returns), it's good to get back to the bloody basics with a little style and self-satirizing...
...world, where it remains even more marginal and impotent. Meanwhile, a considerable and very well-subsidized industry arose, hunting the lefty academic or artist in his or her retreat. Republican attack politics turned on culture, and suddenly both academe and the arts were full of potential Willie Hortons. The lowbrow form of this was the ire of figures like Senator Helms and the Rev. Donald Wildmon directed against National Endowment subventions for art shows they thought blasphemous and obscene, or the trumpetings from folk like David Horowitz about how PBS should be demolished because it's a pinko-liberal-anti...