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Today, four Vanguard records and over 300 tour dates later, Watson is located dead-center in the forward thrust of country music toward highbrow as well as lowbrow respectability. The very impurity of his style, coupled with the exhilaration his work generates, goes a long way to accomplish this aim. Like a select few before him (John Jacob Miles, Travis, Clarence Ashley), he forms a bridge between America's primitive folk heritage and the sophisticated listener...
Bunkum is fast-talking James Nicholson, 50; Ballyhoo is fast-talking Samuel Arkoff, 48. They are the president and chairman of American International Pictures. Since 1954, they have reeled out 130 lowbudget, lowbrow features, grossed about $250 million, and built A.I.P. into the nation's largest independent film company...
...Lyndon Johnson: "By now, the term Great Society has become the object of Bronx cheers and other catcalls, both highbrow and lowbrow. That was only to be expected. As for me, I have just reread [President Johnson's Ann Arbor speech], and I esteem it now, as I did when it was made, as one of the ten or twelve great milestones in American history...
...picture follows a plot line more primitive than its subject. In a cavern, in a canyon dwells the Rock tribe, whose idea of a big time is letting a vulture carry on with grandpaw's carrion. Lowbrow-beaten by his father, and pushed off a cliff by a dribbling sibling, young Tumak (John Richardson) rebels and goes into the caveman business for himself. Eventually, he stumbles across the Shell people, a group in a more advanced state of civilization, as evidenced by their stone-headed spears and the pneumatic uplift of Raquel Welch's deerskin halter...
...venture, joshing Billy in editorial cartoons. After Billy's opening-night sermon, his notices improved somewhat. "Hellfire occupies the same discreet place in his theology as it does in most current versions of Christianity," marveled the Daily Telegraph. While the refined may shudder at Billy's lowbrow mass-appeal methods, declared the Times, "new and potent techniques of persuasion are there to be used for either good or ill. And a church which comprehends pop services and ton-up* parsons has no cause to be overnice about Mr. Graham's methods...