Word: trashier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...album includes two trashy re-makes of '60s pop songs, "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" and "Pinball Wizard," the latter made for the still trashier film Tommy, itself a pathetic re-working of The Who's rock opera. Elton John's name did nothing for these ghosts from the past except make them sell. The originals were much better. Elton's willingness to perform them only showed that his fire was burning out. "Island Girl," an original, was among the most annoying of AM radio's most played tunes. "Don't Go Breaking My Heart," a vapid, iivv number...
...planting the New World, were turned by industrialization and commerce into homemakers and clotheshorses. Shunted to the sidelines, these women and the liberal clergy sought power as guardians of art, literature and refinement. America's sentimental education began. Feeling became more prized than thinking. Popular literature grew trashier at the same time that magazine and book publishing was burgeoning. Narcissism flourished, and with it a greater appetite for the products and kitsch of popular culture...