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HOLOKITSCH. THAT IS ARTIST Art Spiegelmann's word for the banal and manipulative uses to which the Nazi Holocaust has been put in popular culture. Holokitsch reduces an egregious crime to the mechanics of cloying melodrama--dewy-eyed victims and sneering villains. Memory is debased; the uniqueness of each of 6 million lost souls is devalued...
...sheriff's office, now suspicious of everything, probed further into Courtney's quiet, well-mannered life. Before Grandma (Mrs. Sophie Spiegelmann) died in 1935, she had promised to leave Courtney $1,000. "We have a court order to take up the body of your grandmother," a deputy sheriff told Courtney. "What do you think we will find?" Courtney replied: "You'll find arsenic. I poisoned Grandmother. It was my first venture...
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