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...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...
...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...