Word: lowbrowed
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...this golden piece of programming was: “Wow, Fox has stooped to a new low.” But for once, Fox didn’t mastermind this bizarre new program. (In my defense, however, this happened after reading that the network’s notoriously lowbrow line-up is to include a new show called “My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiancé.”) This time, the perpetrator is a premium-cable network with an obvious conflict of interests...
...jarring to see Eric Tsang angry. The jovial actor, whose ubiquity in Hong Kong films?he's been in nearly 150?has made him a fixture on cable systems throughout Asia, is synonymous with lowbrow high jinks and slapstick physicality. Yet here he is, feet planted defiantly on a Kowloon street, ignoring an imprecating photographer who is losing a race with the setting sun to snap a natural-light portrait. Tsang's full-moon of a face, which is seen onscreen usually deployed in an overwrought double take or wide-eyed surprise, is now reddening as he barks in Cantonese...
Just kidding. Actually, Gilman’s letter—which made the devastating point that a student opponent of segregated dining halls was a lowbrow “Quincy House resident”—didn’t even raise eyebrows. Adams House continues to enforce the members-only policy at its opulent dining hall...
Fitting the Stereotype: Assigned to the rowdy 4077th unit in Korea (he calls it “a fetid and festering sewer”), this well-heeled Bostonian loves wine and classical music, votes Republican, has an enormous ego and turns up his nose at all things lowbrow...
...bonding over what it means to be a young man would have seemed pretty, well, woman-y. That changed with the resurgence of men's magazines like Maxim, which built a circulation of more than 2.5 million on a philosophy of manhood built on a love of gadgets, lowbrow jokes and almost naked starlets. (Not coincidentally, Maxim has expressed interest in starting a men's channel...