But a place can be both kitschy and genuinely charming.
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I imagined the rodeo to be loud, flamboyant, and kitschy.
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It's very rustic and charming, and a bit kitschy, inside.
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"They're not as kitschy, if you can call it that."
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The concession vendor was quaint, but kitschy and trendy, nonetheless.
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Love creepy, kitschy stuff / want to scare someone pure of heart?
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She has consistently turned heads with her kitschy yet chic aesthetic.
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It was playful and a little kitschy, it was damn cool.
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The lobby's kitschy, disjointed décor found its way to Room 539.
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"I wanted the space to feel inviting, not kitschy," she said.
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"It's a little kitschy, but we love it," Mr. Chau said.
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Rooms play into the vibe, but it's comfortable rather than kitschy.
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Azikiwe Mohammed's kitschy, immersive installation presents weighty themes of Black identity.
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This style can veer from charming to kitschy, depending on your sensibilities.
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Kitschy beaded bags, Dior Saddle bags, fanny packs...must we go on?
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I'm not one for kitschy gifts, but honestly these were too cute.
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The resurgence of a variety of kitschy '90s nostalgia is to blame.
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But kitschy applications like this are just... not very fun to use?
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They honed in on their image — loud, vibrant, kitschy but never tacky.
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It has become fashionable to treat North Korea as a kitschy joke.
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It's a lively restaurant with live music and kitschy Hawaiian themed decorations.
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The clutter-free house didn't seem anything like his colorful, kitschy clothes.
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A rich man, but without all the kitschy glitz of Trump Tower.
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Homes are quickly snapped up, and this kitschy cottage was no exception.
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Greece's troubled relationship with Germany finds kitschy form in the EMST lobby.
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Mamani's structures won't appeal to everyone, but it don't call them kitschy.
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INDI's bottle is a lot less kitschy and playful than your previous scents.
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The magazine catalogs had a vintage aesthetic, characterized by a kitschy, erotic look.
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It's about lying sacks of burger and hardcore (if also kitschy) American pride.
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In the end, Nobody Speak devolves into a kitschy paean to journalistic heroism.
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I ask what brings locals to kitschy places like The Green Dragon Tavern.
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There's a bit of kitschy feel to running a "Mister Rogers" marathon, however.
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Listen here or over at the Bandcamp page of their label Kitschy Spirit.
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Drivers for ride-hailing apps, delivery workers, freelance contractors, designers of kitschy crafts.
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It's one that manages to be both savvy and kitschy, exhausting and exhilarating.
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You don't need a theme party with kitschy decor and ugliest sweater prizes.
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Even when I'm buying kitschy jugs, I'm buying them in Max Mara colors!
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It's all fittingly outfitted with kitschy green screen effects and low budget charm.
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Despite cards' disposable and at times kitschy nature, retail sales hit $7.5 billion annually.
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In fact, last night's kitschy camp-themed affair proved to be quite the opposite.
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The house features Yip's signature style and doesn't veer into kitschy beach-theme decor.
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It's all extremely kitschy, but to a level that becomes charming rather than cheap.
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A good high-waisted bikini is a little bit retro, without being too kitschy.
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Brainard could be irreverent, funny, self-deprecating, tender, serious, sweet, satirical, and even kitschy.
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A lot of what was there, though, looked a little kitschy and tourist-oriented.
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That would have taken you out and it would have felt kitschy or something.
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The second two because they are kitschy and seem to offer legitimate relaxation benefits.
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The first offering: a kitschy range of customizable phone covers and attachable quirky charms.
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Most pin companies are extremely kitschy, relying on dead cultural references to get by.
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So you grew up on the kind of kitschy, more tongue-in-cheek horror?
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Paint-by-number embraced its kitschy genre with full abandon and has for decades.
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"We aren't some kind of angry, feminist, kitschy, retro place," Ms. Sumner, 29, said.
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She especially enjoys posting Twitter pictures of kitschy cakes that promote extreme gender roles.
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"Encinitas, and Cardiff especially, has so many random and kitschy events," Ms. Gates said.
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"It looks like you just ran out," he said of the kitschy decor trend.
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The kitschy crime movie's success could be a result of the all-star cast.
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"I obviously have hope or I wouldn't be wearing this kitschy costume," Rexine said.
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Still, kitschy as most of it appeared, there's no question he went all in.
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The overall result is kitschy but playful, and the exhibition forms an immersive installation.
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Is it us, or does a new kitschy trend seem to pop up almost daily?
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This specific inflatable has a lovely kitschy aesthetic to it, perfect for the Etsy community.
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Charismatic and silver-haired, Garber released kitschy TV-style advertisements, in Russian, for his company.
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Today, we may mock the kitschy advice, but the impact of the campaign was real.
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Would it just be a bright, kitschy set that mocked the painting in some way?
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I have a late piece from the 1940s when he went into kitschy figurative stuff.
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A kitschy takeout spot for shawarma called Doner Kebab is adjacent to the main restaurant.
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Most visitors crowd the beach, stopping at the restaurants and kitschy shops along the Seawall.
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I also stuck with "kitschy" instead of SCHLOCK for too long — I prefer kitsch myself.
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"Today, it might seem kitschy, but it put the other projects to shame," Wang said.
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At first drink, the Ponce de Léon's Fountain of Youth Archaeological Park might seem kitschy.
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But it's not just pure digital chaos; it's also something of a kitschy circus of humanity.
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There are a lot of kitschy things you can do with the new MacBook Touch Bar.
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Yet the kitschy daytime clamor works, while Sadelle's stab at evening elegance hasn't come together yet.
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In addition to her kitschy top, the pop star bundled up in a leopard print coat.
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The gate is festooned with random kitschy signs, seemingly reclaimed from a series of junky bars.
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Jump on this kitschy jewelry trend by buying one (or more) of the LOVE bracelets ahead.
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"It's the perfect environment for us to have some fun things, some kitschy things," Thalberg said.
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Certainly, during the Britpop period, there were very few really kitschy, colorful female voices at all.
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You don't want to bastardize the stuff you grew up with just to make it kitschy.
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Some entrepreneurs have struck gold with their quirky, kitschy ideas for products, toys, websites, and more.
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Enter this period drama about France's most famous kitschy palace and the king who built it.
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The diner is a kitschy place with a chrome-clad warmth that workers said was genuine.
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The Schattners responded to his takedown with an open letter on their website defending kitschy art.
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Of course, the witches of Ms. Hudson's lecture knew nothing of kitschy kits or Italian luxury.
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Though, those accustomed to more traditional and understated design might view it as a bit kitschy.
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But a kitschy mural of stock photos from Asia and Africa stopped me in my tracks.
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His fascination for the quirky and kitschy is clear in other works from the same time.
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It's kitschy as hell, but also oddly endearing in its total lack of irony or cynicism.
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Not only are the bottles adorably cute and kitschy, but the lip stains within are top-notch.
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My boyfriend used to have a slightly kitschy statue of a guitar player standing beside his mailbox.
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After a while, though, public interest dimmed, and terrazzo came to be seen as passé and kitschy.
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"In some ways, I find Paktor a bit kitschy and childish," said Ali in a CNBC interview.
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There's no reference to the Great Plains, rolling fields, or even some kitschy Wizard of Oz motifs.
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The glittery décor and the slightly kitschy vibe, including a disco ball, are part of the charm.
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It may sound silly or kitschy, but it's super high intensity and works out your entire body.
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The result is music that's global without sounding kitschy or like it's lost its experimental edge. murmrr.
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The very kitschy picture over the sofa with birds on little branches is more like folk art.
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I also put them on my Instagram posts to add pops of color and a kitschy playfulness.
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Herb, with sprayed-on gray hair and a kitschy suit, hammers a keyboard and sips Canadian Club.
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Whitten never made work that was charming, kitschy, or ingratiating, which are the moves of the privileged.
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When works rely on his music, they too often debase their own artistic motives and achieve something kitschy.
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Okay so interesting, is that just kind of a kitschy thing that doesn&apost really connect with you.
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In one of them, Jesse stumbles into Todd's disturbingly kitschy kitchen and sees something just out of frame.
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Okay, so the off-the-shelf appearance of these kitschy, hot-pink ornaments is admittedly far from sophisticated.
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The whole restaurant industry is trying to become more shareable on social media, with kitschy decor and plating.
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This, like the new Battlestar Galactica, is a post-Cold War reimagining of a classically kitschy source material.
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While the restaurant's kitschy exterior adorned with concrete statues of swine doesn't inspire much confidence, the techniques do.
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But it felt kitschy to have something that iconic and recognizable behind scenes with a very different feeling.
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He's the artist best known for kitschy pop-culture art, like giant stainless steel sculptures of balloon animals.
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The restaurant's design was inspired by filmmaker Wes Anderson with its whimsical stripes and combination of kitschy styles.
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A Marilyn Monroe figurine — part kitschy conversation piece, part plaything — sits on a side table in his parlor.
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Seeing it printed in gold on fine paper reduces that world into a meaningless commodity, a kitschy souvenir.
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The Museum of Modern Art embarks on a kitschy, back-to-the-future sort of journey Friday, Sept.
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With its blandly abstract set and kitschy L.E.D. lighting, the staging did little to flesh out Andersen's world.
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"It's a heady and kitschy mix of the contemporary, folk, antiquity, tribal, crafts, you name it," she said.
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While Douglas's kitschy creations make us giggle, they also invite us to pause and laugh at ourselves, too.
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Exaggerated. Extravagant. Gaudy. Ironic. Kitschy. Tongue-in-cheek. These are some of the terms used to describe camp fashion.
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Update: Last month, Whoopi Goldberg's assortment of kitschy, ugly holiday sweaters, created with Lord & Taylor, launched with three designs.
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The neighbouring house is furnished with pink floral wallpaper and kitschy plastic chandeliers; all part of the "urban" style.
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This fall, we're spotting a lot of color play, tons of kitschy and chunky gemstones, and even more pearls.
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The kitschy display of some of these entrances can be forgiven; the delegates are proud of their distinctive identities.
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I'm still not sure what the importance is of the Steam Clock but it was very cool and kitschy!
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" She clarifies that you can't expect to take camp seriously, and campy art tends to be viewed as "kitschy.
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To this day, there is a website for Sea-Monkey zealots, who exchange Sea-Monkey lore and kitschy enthusiasms.
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The fur puff is eye-catching without being kitschy, and it will make any ensemble a bit bolder. 5.
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Far from the concert carnies of Stephansplatz and the kitschy key chains of Mozarthaus Vienna, I was refreshed, sated.
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At one point we caught a Wild West gunfight in Pioneertown, a kitschy exception to the trip's general restraint.
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The WORST TRICK, stay away unless you like kitschy early internet nostalgia and lots of blurry found-footage trickery.
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Schöffer's ever-sensing connected cybernetic city concept is all-at-once kitschy, way-too-real terrifying, and presciently breathtaking.
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Opinion Columnist Last summer, in a kitschy hotel in the Pacific Northwest, I spotted a sort-of funny lampshade.
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I mean it's all kind of kitschy and fun, it's not serious so we just did what we wanted.
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Since the 1950s, the Poconos' kitschy honeymoon resorts have held up a funhouse mirror to American attitudes toward sexuality.
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And Eurovision, the kitschy glitter-filled European song contest, has canceled its May 12-16 event in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
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Downstairs is a rumpus room with kitschy posters for "Crocodile Dundee" and 'NSync, orange carpeting and a sunken fireplace.
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They're ugly and kitschy, yet they leave room for weird, unexpected, often wonderful surprises, hidden right under your nose.
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The ugly sweater styles have changed considerably from retro reindeers and Christmas trees to the more kitschy and bizarre.
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The following morning on Channel One, after a kitschy variety show, the network cut to breaking news from Chechnya.
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He spent most of his downtime lifting weights at the gym and partying at kitschy bars on Duval Street.
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There are lots of musicals which I think are kitschy, and other musicals which I utterly and completely adore.
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These all-pink places are not just an exercise in nostalgia — it's the golden kitschy photo op for social media.
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The results were mostly chaotic until, while shooting a kitschy pink mall, he flipped his camera for the second shot.
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You can find plenty of upcycled toys at Found Beauty Studio Art's Etsy page, like this kitschy dino soap dispenser.
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Although the fragrance looks dramatically more minimalist than the singer's previously kitschy playful scents, there's nothing subtle about its notes.
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But, they've found a way to make their cameras kitschy, cool and popular through unique branding and an engaging aesthetic.
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He kicked the pills, his friends say, and found a job as a server at Edelweiss, a kitschy German restaurant.
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Art is, really, just another commodity to sell in packages along with stickers and action figures and kitschy t-shirts.
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This could easily have devolved into a bombastic, kitschy, sentimental, corny, or just plain awful painting, but it does not.
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Expect a kitschy set, voguing models and a million posts on Instagram: The label's fans can't seem to get enough.
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Casually sprinkled here and there were kitschy horse-racing games, horse-themed art and even a bag of Chessmen cookies.
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" The producers decided to ask Weinstein to do a cameo; Bennett said they thought it would be "fun and kitschy.
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If you love Reese Witherspoon's Draper James fashion line for its fun, kitschy take on southern style, then keep reading.
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Inside, if you get there, you'll find glossy promotional materials for the brands, complete with bright colors and kitschy catchphrases.
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Obvious has created 11 portraits total of the fictional Belamy family, who each come with their own somewhat kitschy taglines.
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Regulars on the East Village performance scene, they quickly became known for their hard-core feminism and gory, kitschy comedy.
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We like: The nautical theme is a fun touch that is expertly executed so it feels charming and never kitschy.
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Laibach's music these days is kitschy Europop with Count-Draculaesque vocal croaks up front, courtesy of the singer Milan Fras.
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A seemingly ill-suited tune, Andy Williams's version of "The Impossible Dream (The Quest)," gives the trailer a kitschy kick.
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All of a sudden, we went from being the kitschy weirdos in North Carolina to being this serious, emotional band.
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The looks were simple and elegant — while still having a kitschy, campy flair necessary for the Met Gala's ultra-fun theme.
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Isolated from beach-goers and kitschy wares, she laughingly told me the discordant buildings looked like they were dropped from space.
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"You understand how this cartoony, kitschy, narrative approach keeps everything on the surface?" her teacher argues with her in one scene.
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"In a place like the Hamptons — it's very country — you can kind of go with a kitschy theme," says Frankel, 45.
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Target's 2018 Halloween home line features pieces that aren't at all kitschy and could actually fit in amongst your regular decor.
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Indeed, certain countries have gotten in some trouble in the past for opening ceremony outfits that seemed too souvenir-shop kitschy.
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For a fragile piece of kitschy clay, the light-up ceramic Christmas tree is a remarkably durable piece of holiday nostalgia.
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The retreat vibe is still intact in Scottsdale's shop- and gallery-filled Old Town, replete with the occasional kitschy Western trappings.
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There's a reason, after all, Ms. Trump did not name her line Gilded Futures, or some other such vague, kitschy title.
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Many of the sweaters have the classic "ugly" design, featuring kitschy snowflake and gift box patterns along with the Disney characters.
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In fact, they literally have a group galled "Gayglers," which I'm gonna go ahead and call cute, if a bit kitschy.
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The brand doesn&apost rely on catchy (or kitschy) names or packaging to appeal to customers, and the prices are fair.
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" Her fascination with kitschy detective magazines is "the literary equivalent of a pink plastic flamingo jabbed into a patch of lawn.
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Roland Avenue at West 21981th Street serves as the epicenter of a kitschy area with plenty of interesting restaurants and shops.
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Fans of the kitschy dolls, which became popular in the 1960s, made pilgrimages from around the world to visit her collection.
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If you want your country and two-stepping to be a little on the kitschy side, go to The Broken Spoke.
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Its signature kitschy décor—Boston ferns in macrame hangers, faceless mannequins, and thrift store-chic pleather booths—has remained for years.
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Strong throughout his work is the idea of appropriation; Picabia's source material included scientific diagrams, photographic reproductions from kitschy magazines, postcards, landscapes.
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It's a kitschy use case, to be sure, but the love that youngsters are showing Venmo is a big boon for PayPal.
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Even now, public witchcraft is centered around profit, whether stores hawk kitschy "Witch City" goods, palm readings, or supplies for authentic spellcraft.
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We walk into a food court of sorts, and while it doesn't have any authentic options, the kitschy fusion food intrigues us.
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It's the tiny, kitschy shop offering everything from the Fruit Loops doughnut to one with a piece of bubblegum in the center.
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I'm also into the FaceTime sound in the outro, it makes the song cheeky and modern but not in a kitschy way.
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Click here to view original GIFForget putting a kitschy Newton's cradle, or one of those liquid sand art displays on your desk.
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And so they are turning to cute wallpaper, flashy light fixtures, tiles, and other kitschy decor — along with ample mirrors, of course.
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It's all dark and kitschy and sarcastic and, seriously, I can't think of a better pop record in the last five years.
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While Tumblr is late to the sticker party, the stickers are right in line with the site's eclectic, kitschy and fun vibe.
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But Nabokov's most enduring contribution may be his portrait of the brash, kitschy, postwar America he observed on his cross-country journeys.
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Still, he and his brother and sister were having a blast, rolling among the sandstone mesas, ghost towns and kitschy tourist attractions.
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The Skunk Ape Headquarters is a kitschy "research" facility in Big Cypress National Preserve, dedicated to the hunt for the elusive hominid.
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You said earlier that you don't really care about some of the kitschy or gimmicky stuff twins are often asked to do.
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I think a fried chicken burrito has the potential to be really great food item and not just a kitschy novelty item.
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Pros: The clever theme is well-executed and never feels kitschy, and entry-level rooms are well-priced, spacious, and creatively-designed.
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Despite disliking cooking, I found myself eagerly ordering basket after basket of kitschy cookery supplies and then patiently tracking their journeys online.
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Perched high on Mr. Pettibon's studio wall, along with various small, kitschy canvases, were a handful of his father's paintings of nudes.
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The consequence of a quid pro quo relationship with men is misandry (and I don't mean a kitschy mug of male tears).
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For its Spring/Summer 2018 show at Paris Fashion Week, Balenciaga sent models down the runway wearing platform Crocs, adorned with kitschy baubles.
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So it's kind of kitschy and funny, but it also does get at what it is to channel some other force of being.
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Dishes with names like the "Mom and Pop" (ham and cheddar) and "The Quitter" (pesto, tomato, mozzarella) are kitschy without being overly themed.
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It's Leone's persistent knack for revealing complicated truths about herself and those around her that make the show — despite its kitschy production — compelling.
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It was developed in collaboration with Taste Beauty, a kitschy company that helps brands manufacture innovative new products along with offering their own.
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Then for a little dessert read Julie and Romeo, a romance about two senior florists whose families are longtime enemies (hence, kitschy title).
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Whether you find the tableaus of idyllic Midwestern life charming or kitschy, the earnest, no-frills food is sure to win you over.
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Water crashed through walls, exploded through heavy doors and destroyed businesses up and down the once-kitschy Main Street in Ellicott City, Maryland.
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Kitschy souvenirs, like mugs and plates with images of Xi and his wife, the famous singer Peng Liyuan, have become harder to find.
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For many Americans, regardless of politics, race, gender, or creed, the Thanksgiving dinner table is an emotional minefield hiding underneath a kitschy tablecloth.
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"The kitschy first trailer for "The Outer Worlds" is a delight, and follows in the tradition of irreverent role-playing games like "Fallout.
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The club retains much of the early-1960s feel of the movie, a kitschy step back in time to an old Brooklyn neighborhood.
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It's a reasonable rate for a costly-to-maintain classic vehicle that evokes an Americana nostalgia well-suited to South Florida's kitschy charms.
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Amazon's Alexa has found its way into a variety of non-Amazon hardware devices, from smartwatches to entertainment hubs to kitschy refrigerator speakers.
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Lazy Oaf's head designer and founder, Gemma Shiel, has already proven once before that she can take kitschy cute and make it cool.
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The collection had been greeted, not altogether warmly, as a cute, kitschy take on high-school archetypes: the jock, the goth, the cheerleader.
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After World War II, Heimat was repurposed as an amnesia-inducing blanket that covered the horrors and guilt with kitschy, romantic Alpine movies.
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The "Strip," or Country 29 Boulevard, is replete with neon-lit live entertainment venues; a light-up Ferris wheel; and kitschy architecture galore.
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"Some are well painted, and some are kitschy-bad," said Mr. Robshaw, who added that he paid between $100 and $500 for each.
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There would be many more gigantic, kitschy installations: A sextet of 10-foot-tall dancing frogs and an alligator made of Altoid tins.
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We had stumbled across a kitschy photo booth where you could dress up in classic Scottish highland attire and pose for the camera.
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Now, this single-serve unit comes in kitschy hues like this Oasis blue, and it's our pick for the workaholic on your list.
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The chalkboard walls were likely viewed as a way to create a fun and interactive space, but the overall effect was too kitschy.
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Near Remuh Synagogue and the Old Cemetery are kitschy, Jewish-looking restaurants with Hebrew signs and waiters offering picture menus to passers-by.
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So don't feel bad about chuckling about the kitschy music kicking back in as he makes sure he hasn't been impaled or set ablaze.
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" The architect critic slammed the already-built Trump Tower as a "skyscraper offering condos, office space and a kitschy shopping atrium of blinding flamboyance.
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The trendy party, thrown by digital media firm Hypebeast, was held at a pop-up space meant to resemble a kitschy neon-lit nightclub.
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Stylists and celebrities have brought back the childhood accessory with bling and kitschy catchphrases that can give the simplest bun or ponytail new life.
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Valentino and Missoni debuted a mishmash of colors, metals, and shapes on the spring 2018 runway, while Marni proved beading doesn't always mean kitschy.
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Kitschy radio pop booms out from a central viewing tower, adorned by a glass wall with cascading currents of water illuminated in shimmering colors.
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What they bring are kitschy spectacles, melodramas told through broad acting and ballet conflated with acrobatics, all underlined by formulaic music, Chinese and Western.
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The borderline kitschy atmosphere draws people looking for a good time, thanks to a reputation on par with some of the world's best nightclubs.
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Vibrant, glittering, and a little bit kitschy, Miripolksy's sharks are having the time of their lives, and those good times begin in the Brewery.
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The houses in the village are named after German cities and supposedly reflect regional building styles—or at least a kitschy imitation of them.
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It has a kitschy and fun interface, and you can react to the videos in real time with typed comments or animated emoji reactions.
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Thirty-four years ago this week, a man named Paul Francis Gadd released a 12-song album laced with an idiotically kitschy glam sensibility.
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The ultra-kitschy handbag looks like someone used bootleg Photoshop to superimpose '08-era Barack and Michelle onto a grainy White House-decorated background.
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This weekend, I had the unique pleasure of playing two very old, very kitschy, very gender-norm-reinforcing board games from the swinging 60s.
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Much like the spicy piña colada served with adobe pepper rum at the in-show Shipwreck Lounge, there's a heat to the kitschy sweetness.
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Think Muzak but much less kitschy and anodyne — unless kitsch and lounge music is what the retailer happens to be going for, of course.
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By now, though, the formula has grown tired: the black-lacquered furniture, the kitschy music, the watery miso soup (free!), the obligatory tuna roll.
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It's got a classic look that might come across as somewhat kitschy in a modern home, but only if you're being fussy about it.
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Plus, many of them are clunky and kitschy, which may appeal to kids but isn't ideal for getting them to drift off to sleep.
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Even settings like a cheap motel imbue a kitschy chic dreaminess, a perfect backdrop for beautiful Jesse to saunter about in gauzy little dresses.
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If you want Christmas decorations that feel festive, but not kitschy and still fit in with your space, we can't recommend Anthropologie's selection enough.
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He called his fang company Sabretooth and treated each new customer as a member of his own vampire clan with ritualized, if kitschy, ceremonies.
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You're probably doing a lot more cooking now that you can't go out, so you need some kitschy potholders to deck out your kitchen.
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Probably few who saw the ad knew her name, but for a whole generation of New Yorkers she attained a kitschy sort of cachet.
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Kitschy pop hits that span the '80s to the aughts (think Salt-N-Pepa, MC Hammer and Miley Cyrus) dominate the Spotify stream here.
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With rooms upward of $400 a night, the hotel is more reminiscent of the high-living Hamptons than the kitschy and gritty Jersey Shore.
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I don't know who signed off on that, I just know that it's kitschy and unnecessary when you have such an otherwise strong exterior.
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A gay scene formed around the restaurant's bar, likely sparked by a gay activist who bought most of Macado's kitschy decor for its owner.
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In fact, the production was unanimously panned when it premiered: It was called derivative, banal, derisory, inartistic, of poor taste, and, above all, kitschy.
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And while her videos incorporate kitschy graphics and elaborate costuming, she's constantly using ancient Greek and religious imagery in her work to explore darker themes.
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They introduced us to the new kitschy It-bag fashion bloggers are going to be fighting over Shaped like a giant spool of golden thread.
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It's not uncommon to see pristine 70s hot rods rolling down the street, and many businesses still bear their original, perennially kitschy 60s era signage.
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This is more for the enthusiast who wants a piece of furniture that just happens to have a kitschy dual-purpose as a game controller.
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For example, a Cancer dad probably has a soft spot for kitschy memorabilia, while a Virgo dad likes simple things that serve their purpose well.
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They're almost all white collar, urban dwellers reacting to him the same way they probably do to an infomercial for a kitschy home improvement product.
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It is then that things turn kitschy and supernatural: the artworks that these characters want to exploit for financial gain start to seek their revenge.
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Each one makes me feel nostalgic for some fictional version of romance, apocalypse, and kitschy Americana that I don't think anyone has ever really experienced.
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On a glass column stands a bust of Ludwig II of Bavaria—the "Mad King" who built the kitschy Neuschwanstein Castle in the 19th century.
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While the guacamole extravaganza is kitschy, the hotel is certainly worth visiting in its own right, especially if you're looking for a kid-free environment.
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In one image, the head of one statue is pushed against a glass window of a bar, serving as a kitschy greeting sign to passersby.
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You could say I'm thinking too hard about a kitschy piece that's meant to encourage road safety, rather than a serious suggestion for human design.
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I wondered if Abbe ever regretted having to see such sculptures, in his mind's eye, saturated in the bright colors that many people find kitschy.
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"We met at a kitschy, fakey art deco diner,'' said Mr. Herbert, who was "looking for a woman with a career who wanted a life.
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From itty bitty stackable rings to multi-colored statement earrings, we're tossing our minimal accessories aside to make room for their kitschy and colorful counterparts.
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The restaurants are a favorite among South Korean tourists who enjoy the kitschy musical performances and rare glimpses of North Koreans that the venues provide.
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But beginning in the 2800s, many of those Florida-centric roadside temptations, with their kitschy, bold-colored signs and even more colorful characters, had disappeared.
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"We loved Whoopi's unique and whimsical approach to the traditional kitschy Christmas sweater," Liz Rodbell, president of the two department stores, wrote in an email.
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The use of Blue Oyster Cult's kitschy hit "(Don't Fear) the Reaper" indicates an underlying dark wit, but the relentless violence may leave viewers cold.
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He seemed outmatched by this Alberich, with a breast-plated costume, looking like a kitschy reject from "Game of Thrones," that didn't lend him dignity.
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Two Australian artists have paid for and installed a bronze menagerie of kitschy statues — anthropomorphic dogs and rabbits, topsy-turvy rhinos — across New York City.
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"I really love to have those bad taste things," he said — the kitschy sunflower print, the coordinated tracksuits, the neckties (on the beach, no less!).
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Collins Avenue runs the length of Miami's beach areas and is lined by iconic hotels, restaurants, and nightclubs, as well as kitschy tourist beach shops.
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Newly affordable magazines and cookbooks teemed with kitschy photos of baked Alaskas and ham legs blasted with hairspray and spritzed with glycerin so they gleamed.
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Wall Drug started as a small drug store in the 903s, and it has since expanded as a kitschy, all-day restaurant and roadside attraction.
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While exceptionally imaginative and wide-ranging in their historical and sociopolitical references, the works in this lavish, two-floor exhibition are more kitschy than visionary.
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But it's in the kitschy, bachelorette-party ridden dives of Lower Broadway, dappled in neon and scorned by locals, where we truly embraced the music.
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When an elderly couple, enthralled by Lewan's upbeat and kitschy polka shows, wander into his shop, he entices them to invest in "Jan Lewan" enterprises.
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But in place of kitschy graphic T-shirts, the brand now produces full clothing lines, all of which are the result of local artist collaborations.
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" Songs alluded to Steve Reich, Justin Timberlake and, as Longstreth put it to me, "a kitschy, exoticist, American fantasy of what Chinese music sounds like.
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It's only 113 miles from Key Largo to Key West, but take it slow and savor the subtropical, sometimes kitschy, flavor, of these fragile isles.
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Yet objects are detailed with humor and affection: kitschy throws, embroidered pillows, plates emblazoned with the US flag, children's toys, shelves of books, and the television.
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Pepper tradeshows routinely pack out convention halls with thousands of attendees, while new hot sauces with kitschy names appear every day—and fly off the shelves.
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Some period shows will go for the kitschy versions of their eras, likeThat '70s Show's aggressively groovy flair or Fresh Off the Boat's Technicolor '90s aesthetic.
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Oster and van de Sandt learned that hundreds of these kitschy interiors exist, finding love motels in Brazil's large cities as well as its small villages.
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On the New Imperial Star, flies buzz around the kitschy chandeliers and the crew of 20 Ukrainians, 18 from Myanmar and 8 Chinese can only wait.
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Fans will remember Moore's kitschy decor, including a gallery wall featuring a mismatched collection of art and the familiar letter M that hangs above her typewriter.
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The average person hardly notices the robotic Party-speak that has returned to television, or the kitschy propaganda billboards that have become ubiquitous in the streets.
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Like the kitschy shtick and deadpan stand-up that it references, White's portion of the 2017 SECA Art Award exhibition engages the improvisational, unexpected, and haphazard.
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Shop modern holiday decor at CB2It's easy to find cute and kitschy holiday decor, but finding simple and modern pieces can be a little more challenging.
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Touring Elvis Presley's estate, Graceland, home to the kitschy Jungle Room with a carpeted ceiling, remains a bucket-list trip for music fans the world over.
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Expect kitschy red velvet curtains, neon disco-ball lighting and long communal tables that quickly fill with multigenerational families, birthday celebrants, and couples young and old.
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She sang "Nessun dorma" from Puccini's opera "Turandot" — a kitschy aria so overdone it was even used by President Trump on the campaign trail in 2016.
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By then, the public address system had been restored and Judge rounded the bases with a full assortment of kitschy alarms and hip-hop music pumping.
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While some vintage portraits of pets and their owners are more kitschy than others, they all exemplify the unbreakable bond between people and animals throughout history.
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An unlikely solution to the Christmas tree problem is to procure an Evergleam, the hipster-kitschy aluminum tree and midcentury artifact now celebrating its 60th birthday.
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As we left the small mirrored room at the kitschy Museum of Illusions, where our likenesses warped and refracted, we encountered a third set of twins.
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This winter, Brooklinen introduced a painted dash pattern in white, navy, and toffee for anyone interested in bold bedding that doesn't veer into the kitschy territory.
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This look was brought into a new context when paired with an array of kitschy prints: bright zebra, sugary pink polka dots, gingham and tablecloth florals.
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It was like the ocean wanted to give the kind people of France a gift, and Poseidon just straight up loved kitschy shit from the 80s.
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Although flamingos are ubiquitous as plastic lawn ornaments and as kitschy fashion patterns, the birds themselves are less visible, and are under threat due to human activity.
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Although the black was a poor choice, Katy Perry's shoes are kitschy and even a bit reminiscent of Cubism, bringing to mind images of Pablo Picasso's paintings.
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In a movie full of kitschy bravado, lines like Juno's "I don't really know what kind of girl I am" land like a punch to the heart.
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Much like the O.G. bath bomb, the Jelly Bomb comes to us from Lush, the foremost purveyors of kitschy, colorful bath and body products the internet loves.
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But, when you look at the dark facts behind the kitschy intros and fairy tale imagery, there are some definite red flags lurking in Becca's Bachelorette future.
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It lays out explanations for the star's existence, but they're kitschy, unsatisfying ones — the kind of stories that fans who demand "answers" to fictional mysteries often get.
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A 15-minute stroll from the hotel is Royal Palms Shuffle Board Club, a kitschy venue with a live DJ, food trucks, and a full-service bar.
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It sounds kind of gross, but if it's packaged in a kitschy tin, tinted pink, and costs less than a bulk pack of gum, I can't resist.
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Mr. Pittas offered two sets of dispiritingly second-rate songs by Duparc and Brahms in which the music never quite managed to elevate the texts' kitschy earnestness.
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He's confident he'll find a homeowner who will embrace that tradition, preserve the historical integrity, and keep the 1970s kitschy aura alive well into the next generation.
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The words "green bean casserole" may evoke kitschy images of soggy canned beans floating in bland liquid, but we promise that this vegan version is all flavor.
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You go to any Parks Canadian, and inside their gift shop, they have culturally appropriated artwork, whether its paintings, beadwork, moccasins, dream catchers, kitschy shitty little trinkets.
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The color scheme represents one period and her fonts, whether bold and commercial or kitschy — the latter recalling, say, a carnival in a frontier town — represent another.
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Ranging from the 1980s to the 2000s, these "queer and kitschy" films are all directed by women: Barbara Hammer, Joan Braderman, and Kayuclia Brooke and Jane Cottis.
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Six-packs of tube socks become cashmere socks, kitschy jewelry becomes designer jewelry, and party games — well, those are probably best left out of this scenario completely.
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CF: From what I gather, Tropicalism is something both super-authentic, representing the counterculture of a certain period, and also kind of kitschy at the same time.
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This venue ostensibly sells kitschy found and artist-altered items on its shelves and was manned by Jimmy himself (Mohammed) through the opening week of the exhibition.
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The 2003 Turner Prize winner explores class conflict in his work, with references to kitschy folk art and decorative ceramics, as well as depictions of council estates.
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Welcome To Netflix's Newest Freaky Series Natasha Leggero & Moshe Kasher Are Thankful Their Baby Is Cool How Netflix Gave This Kitschy 1960s Sci-Fi Show A Feminist Makeover
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Selfies Scenes is fun to use, and is clearly yet another kitschy way for Apple to push more exclusive features optimized for the iPhone X, as with Animoji.
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While most people could probably do without reliving the less-than-glorious parts of middle school, the templates do add a playful, if slightly kitschy, element to Stories.
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But it's not easy to pull one off because you might look like you work at a kitschy dim sum restaurant or worse, your grandmother (no offence, grandma!).
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" From a 'secret formula' The 225-year-old almanac, with its kitschy cover and homespun advice, noted in 2015 that it's "useful, with a pleasant degree of humor.
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Easily dismissed as kitschy, the installation of stools, dustpans, brooms, levels, drills, crates, hammers, and drop cloths raises poignant questions about everyday tools recontextualized into works of art.
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Sarah Aubrey, who oversees programming at TNT, described the excitement when M. Night Shyamalan approached the network about revamping "Tales From the Crypt," the kitschy HBO horror series.
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The kitschy decor, pink-tone lighting and cheap beers draws groups looking to have fun conversation and enjoy a night of drinking in banquets and at small tables.
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But whereas Mr. Shaw looks to amateur paintings and kitschy religious artifacts with the eye of a connoisseur, Mr. Oursler is less discriminating about visual or poetic qualities.
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Six years after the cute, kitschy animated lawn decor danced into moviegoers' hearts in Gnomeo & Juliet (2011), the charming original characters are back for a sequel — Sherlock Gnomes.
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I asked Houellebecq if a kitschy cow standing atop an advertisement for farm produce in front of a grassy seaside landscape at dusk was a sign of Americanization.
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Patrons order at the counter and eat at sundry chrome dinettes off mismatched dishes (including plastic Disney plates), seasoning their food with kitschy vintage salt and pepper shakers.
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Keep an eye on the cult bad flick Reptilicus, which appears to be one of the movies riffed on, and enjoy the kitschy retro look of the comeback.
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Now, a developer known for restoring old properties, the 1933 Group, has bought the 1925 building with the intention of bringing it back to its gloriously kitschy past.
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When we visited a drugstore the other day, she marched off to the aisle of holiday trinkets to assess the overall balance of sparkling tinsel to kitschy dreidels.
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Rather than getting swept up by beers with kitschy additives like fruit or spice, stick to age-old standbys that harmonize with the food rather than upstage it.
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It often seems that the terror and mass murder orchestrated by Stalin and his henchmen have somehow acquired, at least in the West, a weirdly kitschy, ironic patina.
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The accessible southern terminus of Lake George, with kitschy arcades, wax museums and speedboats crowding the waterfront in the village of the same name, attracts the most tourists.
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That, in turn, fanned the midcentury space-themed décor craze, in which the Sputnik's kitschy combination of straight polished-brass arms and bare bulbs played a starring role.
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Beyond the beach in the Hawaii capital, where new takes on traditional dishes, in-depth local history museums and a kitschy cocktail (or two) are on the itinerary.
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With its ironic sweatshirts, designer baseball caps, and kitschy 20133s curios, it feels like a 2019 update on the funky boutiques of the East Village in the 1980s.
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We ate similar meals at both restaurants to see which is more worth the dough, and we were impressed by Buca di Beppo's kitschy charm and mostly tasty food.
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To wit: this kitschy, lo-res fake commercial for Charles Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, starring Jubilee (Lana Condor): Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters is now open for enrollment!
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But it's also a really good cover of "Never Gonna Give You Up," a song that became a prank because it was so grim and kitschy to start with.
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The world of modern pirates has many factions — some are into kitschy Renaissance fair piracy, some the steampunk pirate community, and others only participate in historically accurate pirate cosplay.
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Kitschy camera company Lomography (or Lomo) has returned to Kickstarter for its seventh crowdfunding campaign: a trio of lenses that can fit most name-brand digital or film cameras.
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"People have this almost preconceived notion that eBay is where you go to kind of find more kitschy, hard to find memorabilia, which is not not true," she continues.
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While you might wonder if it's weird for mom to get you a pair of kitschy underwear, she will probably be too stunned by how delightful the underwear looks.
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So it may be the case that anyone with an aversion to themed-restaurants will be able to charge up at a less kitschy Supercharger station down the road.
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Between intentionally kitschy versions meant to resemble true picnic baskets to top-handle woven purses, your Instagram feed is about to be flooded with basket-weave bags, yet again.
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Wandering into the exhibition, I was enveloped in enough purple and orange hand-dyed fabrics, kitschy sunsets, lean-tos and salvaged bunk beds to fill a Grateful Dead campground.
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And even if you never plan on getting married, it's hard not being curious about those kitschy mason jars pictured inside an abandoned barn in the middle of Minnesota.
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The five-piece collection offers kitschy updates on Diff Eyewear's most popular styles, like the brand's Luka visor-like style, which features the word "hot" branded over each lens.
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Constructed out of shipping containers and filled with plants and kitschy furniture galore, it seems straight out of Harriet the Spy…except with a wide selection of local beers.
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To passers-by, the place may appear to be a straightforward (if self-consciously kitschy) Chinese restaurant, with its tumbling water fountain, happy-cat mural and red paper lanterns.
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These modified hunting decoys normally run on AA batteries, but the artist has created custom battery adapters with kitschy bee patterns that allow AAA batteries to be used instead.
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The house was filled with kitschy pink shag rugs, pinks furs in the bathroom, a pink heart-shaped bathtub, a fountain spurting pink champagne, and a heart-shaped pool.
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Nice photos from a friend's latest vacation, funny memes, kitschy sunsets, cute animals and/or babies, footage of Snoop Dogg smoking blunt after blunt—it's prime sleep-inducing fodder.
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Sharp-eyed viewers of last Sunday's "60 Minutes" newsmagazine on CBS may have noticed a kitschy gift-shop horror hanging above Trump's personal dining room in the White House.
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Self-described as "kitschy," while still high on the luxury scale, the resort is located between Key West Harbor and Mallory Square, smack in the middle of Old Town.
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So it's no surprise that a fresh crop of sangucherías is taking root amid the Chilean capital's thriving food scene, riffing on traditional preparations and the typically kitschy settings.
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Last night, they returned to The Late Show to ruin Stephen Colbert's kitschy Christmas song, "Jingle Jingle," reprising their role as foul-mouthed destroyers of Colbert's breezy holiday spirit.
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A few of the girls held kitschy handbags, like one that resembled a theater marquee and read "It's All an Act"; another was shaped like an old-school boombox.
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In Chinatown, just in time for the holidays (and surrounded by kitschy souvenir shops and knockoff designer fashion vendors), a gleaming new storefront now offers artisan and handcrafted goods.
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From lace sets to kitschy gift packs, click through the comprehensive lingerie gift guide ahead and get your S.O. something they'll really love to slip into this holiday season.
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New Jersey's Wildwoods are known for their Doo-Wop architecture— characterized by kitschy neon signs and irregular shapes — and for the exhilarating rides at Morey's Piers and Water Parks.
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This occasion must warm the hearts of those museum curators who earlier in the decade risked including Smith's kitschy sunsets and dinosaurs in exhibitions at the New Museum and MoMA.
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And while grown-ups with a love for kitschy bath products can probably appreciate these captions, so is not the case for Lesley Hughes, an England-based mother of three.
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With the rise of vintage costume jewelry and kitschy brands like Roxanne Assoulin and Susan Alexandra, we could totally see a few Claire's pieces fitting into your current jewelry box.
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The New Yorker spoke to Nancy Bennett, one of the film's producers, who said that they originally thought it would be "fun and kitschy" to include Weinstein in the movie.
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With Valentine's Day on the horizon, we're looking for a few kitschy-hued dresses to line up with date night, or whatever else you might (or might not) have planned.
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I joined them and we waited for the shuttle, exhausting the browsing potential of the kitschy gift shop with its cheap leis and turquoise hoodies, swapping names and dreaming résumés.
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Its menu also extends beyond kitschy bar food with selections like soup du jour, barbecue grilled flatbread, gourmet pot pie and grilled chicken with applewood smoked bacon and goat cheese.
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And, yeah, this is all part of an aesthetic for the artist: uncaring but passionate, a lover of pop music, a dash of kitschy hedonism to go with his refinement.
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While you and I might see these Mary transformations as something cute, even kitschy, for the artist it's an examination of womanhood, of spirituality, of customs and habits (pun intended).
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Once you get beyond the kitschy Beatles references, Across the Universe isn't half bad, especially for a musical romantic drama that passes the Bechdel Test on more than one occasion.
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The "Lisa Frank Flat" is a 90s-kid dream for any influencer or traveler looking to stay in a hotel that offers nostalgic decor, vibrant photo ops, and kitschy amenities.
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But the shelves teem with pleasant surprises (premixed Negronis!), odd novelties (six-ounce goblets of chardonnay) and kitschy conveniences (Disaronno packaged with a lemon squeezer for your amaretto-sour needs).
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North Korea is also kitschy in a way that only a country that has little contact with the outside world and yet wants to impress the outside world can be.
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"Immediately, we started thinking, 'Oh, this painting is kind of kitschy and fun for kids,' and so that was why I think we went with a lunch box," Harkins says.
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And for sure, the kitschy signs at Frankie's, which include a 22-foot long wiener reading "WORLD FAMOUS HOT DOGS" on top of the building play into this odd sentimentality.
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Amid these kitschy wonders are estimable sculptures by the likes of Kiki Smith, Elyn Zimmerman and John Newman, many produced on the premises — as were Ms. Scott's two monumental Tubmans.
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Kitschy and poorly-animated (by today's standards, at least), today 'Doot' serves as a reminder of technologies past, but the meme can also convey something older, creepier and more human.
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While some pet portraits are kitschy and downright hilarious, they nevertheless emphasize the important role of pets in pop culture, art history, and the royal families of past and present.
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There are clear bags that are easy for skidding past TSA, kitschy pouches that say exactly what we're thinking, and luggage-like cases that make our products feel first-class.
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The fact that Webster is not being ironic about an image that could easily have devolved into something sentimental or kitschy is really what lifts this work into another realm.
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When I think of the kitschy, unlovely commemorative china that royalists love to collect, I am reminded of the party favors handed out at many a Nigerian function (birthdays, funerals, weddings).
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The whole experience is a more purposeful rebake of the kitschy 4D cinema experiences of the 90s, enabling virtual reality to grow more immersive thanks to tactile feedback in physical spaces.
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What's most impressive about Sightings of the Sacred — and keeps a book that's basically just images of cows from being repetitive or kitschy — is how Naudé brings out each animal's individuality.
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So unless you have a beach vacation on the horizon or plan to dress up as Spencer Pratt for Halloween, the moment has come to put those kitschy pieces to rest.
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He wears baseball hats when he works on his farm, so I decide to get him a "World's Best Grandpa" hat, which is kitschy, but I know he will love it.
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This subculture uploads footage of every part of the amusement park experience: entering the park, eating at the overpriced restaurants, watching the kitschy stage shows, and, most importantly, riding the rides.
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If trading out that adorable butter knife and the kitschy bread basket for more utilitarian, clean-lined products is enough to keep us from unwittingly going overboard — we're all for it!
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Colin: I know the whole "Africa" thing was at least partly our fault, but we're long past the age of innocence where such a kitschy track could be even remotely funny.
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Jimmy Buffett is a name synonymous with unironic Hawaiian print shirts, a fandom of "Parrotheads," and of course Margaritaville — both the earworm anthem and the vacation hotspot with a kitschy menu.
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TEL AVIV — With a powerful but low-key ballad, the Netherlands won the 2500 Eurovision Song Contest, an unapologetically kitschy event with 21 participating countries held this year in Tel Aviv.
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Rather than looking candid, as with pet photos we might take today, these kitschy pet portraits were posed and highly thought-out, hearkening back to early pet portraits of the 1500s.
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For another, she's brazen AF. To escape Dusty's kitschy dungeon, Infinity bribes the guy who helped Dusty fake her medical records, Ray, into getting her a motel room — and unlimited dessert.
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From Coach's embossed logo and leather handbags to Kate Spade's kitschy, colorful accessories, their products lured buyers who wanted a taste of fashion without the sharpest edges — or the highest cost.
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Fascinated by Nabwana and his ability to make kitschy action films with budgets around 65 dollars that still draw in millions of online viewers, Hofmanis searched the world for others like him.
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Today, photo booth operators spend their time crafting spaces in the same ways that restaurants are intentionally designed to go viral, using intricate backdrops, props, and kitschy decor to invite patrons in.
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It wasn't until a few weeks later, when he was visiting a friend, that he spotted what he describes as a "kitschy" photograph of hills and mountains receding into a foggy distance.
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The question of whether Airbnb's platform will be effective at doing this — and whether the solution will be more innovative than kitschy — is one we can't answer until we have more information.
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He alternately trolls the game's sometimes clichéd graphics — "That's a very kitschy version of a Syrian courtyard" — and emphasizes how much of the game's harrowing moments are based on his own reality.
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Related: Famous Renaissance Paintings Are Even More Surreal as Modern Photos Kitschy Sculptures Update Renaissance Portraiture for Modern Times Meet The Artist Turning Warped Renaissance Art GIFs Into An Augmented Reality Book
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If 2018 is the year that you plan to become a boss (in the most literal sense), you may want to reach for more than a kitschy listicle to lead your efforts.
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There are organs in the background that border on kitschy, though I'm not sure Harris—whose album teaser sees a parrot dropping the needle on the record—is afraid of that anymore.
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The hit joined the running list of Aaron Spelling executive produced 90s classics like Melrose Place, Beverly Hills 90210, and 7th Heaven that defined an era of kitschy, but yet provocative, programming.
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In this kitschy update, Bartel shifts his focus away from aloof bohemian artistes to desensitized showbiz hacks, represented here by a fickle studio executive (Richard Paul) and narcissistic director named Schreck (Bartel).
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Once that's out of the way (it is not in the bailiwick of this column to consider the many kitschy Easter bunny television specials available on streaming), that leaves the religious pictures.
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Even so, many longtime fans yearn for another time and another direction; for Star Trek productions that embrace the sometimes kitschy mix of science and philosophy the original series was founded on.
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At Sotheby's on January 23 and 24, an online sale of the late designer Mario Buatta's kitschy, maximalist trove of 0003 objects garnered $7.6 million, about 250% of the sale's high estimate.
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"We saw other bars starting to post photos online, and since Dromedary is a tiki bar, fun and kitschy drinks are right up our alley," the bartender Danielle Jude Langlois told Insider.
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With another 90 minutes of driving, I rolled into Baker, home to the world's tallest thermometer (the perfect kitschy roadside attraction) before veering off the freeway to head up Death Valley Road.
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Wan also manages to pull off a huge final war sequence — complete with nasty sea dragons, belligerent orcas, and the giant, kitschy crab army — that is somehow both giggle- and awe-inducing.
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True, the world may not need a factory in the shape of a giant booze bottle, but such kitschy visions are certainly more fun than a landscape filled with sleek, uniform buildings.
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For a kitschy-retro shoot in a pink hotel room, for example, the couple channelled Priscilla Presley, who Elvis discovered on a beach and spirited away to Graceland when she was just 17.
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Forget kitschy souvenirs and chain stores; this welcoming neighborhood caters to residents, with shops focused on what's local, from bookshelves and bathing suits to take-away beers worth a stroll across the river.
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While there are plenty of kitschy souvenir shops to get a T-shirt or postcards, many of the streets are lined with luxury shopping from top international brands as well as Greek designers.
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Dogman and Rabbitgirl: An Australian couple has cracked the code to winning public art commissions in New York City — with kitschy bronze statues that touch on themes from gender equality to wildlife conservation.
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Though the DMZ has taken on something of a tourist trap atmosphere over the years — the South side is also a popular tourist destination and also has its share of kitschy souvenirs — Lt. Col.
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French Bashing is divided into two antithetical rooms: one very dimly lit, with lights pointed directly at the photographs, and the other overwhelmingly bright with vibrantly colored, kitschy tourist placemats completely covering the floor.
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Meanwhile, smaller-scale stores following the Trader Joe's model, such as Aldi and Lidl, are popping up and pulling in new, diehard shoppers with their kitschy vibe, original products and limited-yet-useful selection.
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A digital-era 6-year-old might well slip off with a more typical 21st-century diversion, while Mom and Dad revel in the kitschy loopiness that they loved as children or younger adults.
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It feels like an ep from a kitschy old TV show, but most pertinently, Music For Listening to Music to shows the couple honing in on the power of a matrimonial and musical relationship.
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A few years ago, photographer Naomi Harris spent the better part of a year driving around America with her dog, taking pictures of kitschy Americana, interesting characters, and a shit-ton of waffle houses.
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Before Noel Fielding was serving up baking banter and an impressive array of kitschy shirts on "The Great British Baking Show," he was one half of the outlandish comedy duo behind The Mighty Boosh.
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It posts pictures of such eyesores as defaced subway signs, Dumpsters that are disappearing under mountains of uncollected garbage and even, recently, a man in a kitschy gladiator costume taking a leak in public.
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But this weekend, here amid the rolling Civil War battlefields and the kitschy souvenir shops, anyone can buy a politician — a president no less — deftly shaped by skilled manipulators of wax and other polymers.
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And the musical Tropicalists were super-aware of Brazil having been exoticized and at the same time they were kind of reclaiming the right to the territory that was considered kitschy by other people.
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The population still hovers around 12,000, the Los Alamos National Laboratory is still in the business of "national security science," and kitschy stores and restaurants with names like Atomic City Quilts or Atomic Eyecare abound.
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This 59-room throwback sits adjacent to the Star Drive In, an adorably kitschy attraction that plays films on two screens nightly from May through September (recently featured flicks include Finding Dory and Independence Day).
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Latest election results On a frigid night in the largely forgotten region about halfway between the Maine and Canadian borders, the small northern New Hampshire town came alive for several minutes of kitschy democratic conflict.
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New FiDi Pasta Shop Literally Names Itself After Instagram Last June I wrote a long feature about how the popularity of Instagram was transforming bars and restaurants into more colorful, kitschy, gimmicky versions of themselves.
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"I was actually afraid to show it to Céline because this was our first month working together — I thought that she would think that it was too kitschy or silly, in a way," he says.
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Behind the corny titles and kitschy sunsets, I sense a genuine nostalgia for simpler times, with less rushing, achieving, and consuming, and more camping, reading, sunset-watching, love-making, and getting a good night's rest.
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Circus Network, a Porto-based cultural organization and gallery space, recently commissioned a cohort of Portuguese artists to reimagine kitschy porcelain pups, a sculptural element commonly found in the living rooms of little old ladies.
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This Miley we're witnessing feels authentic, and despite the lackluster lyrics and kitschy production, her attempts to transform will hopefully evolve organically now that she's back in the very safe space that is square one.
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LAST year a kitschy animated video about the drafting of China's new five-year economic plan, probably commissioned by the government, attempted to sell the country's road map to English speakers (see first video, below).
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The live stream will offer all other kinds of kitschy and cool interviews with Star Wars fans and creators throughout the weekend, but the Rogue One panel will no doubt be one of the highlights.
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Each resident at Homecoming has kitschy palm tree-print curtains at his window, an austere writing desk that looks like a secretary's perch out of Mad Men, and a shiny, squat, mustard-colored desk lamp.
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In endorsing the hideousness of Shady and Lentelli's sculpture, which is kitschy and sentimental in its depiction of a "noble" general bestride his very favorite horse, Trump invites us to come together as a nation.
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It was equal parts kitschy and surreal, and more than once I thought about whispering a joke to a stranger about how I had stumbled into The Death of Stalin or a Coen brothers' film.
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For a luxury hotel on Chicago's Michigan Avenue that feels anything but generic, the Chicago Athletic Association Hotel plays on its rich history, gothic architecture, and curated design to offer unique personality without feeling kitschy.
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Their staggering range of often traditional themes — from crucifixes to historic battles to rearing, almost kitschy stallions and damsels in distress — are belied by a radical use of color and paint that inspires artists still.
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The opera is a kitschy, exploitative sanctification of monogamy cloaked in gorgeous music, and Marc Albrecht conducted the Deutsche Oper orchestra with lush colors and outstanding sensitivity to the singers, even in the thickest passages.
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When he got out after nine years, he started the hot-dog business, which led to his running a chain of convenience stores and eventually to starting several deluxe if kitschy restaurants in St. Petersburg.
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The whole thing felt uncomfortable and offensive in many ways — like a callback to the classic "freak show," in which people's disabilities are put on display in a kitschy manner for the amusement of visitors.
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It's just one example drawn from a rich, decades-long history of the Poconos' kitschy honeymoon resort advertisements, which, since the 1950s, have both reflected and helped shape American attitudes toward sexuality, romance, and marriage.
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Whether Jon Stewart or the Jewish Republican donors disdained the kitschy builder with his flamboyant hair, his money, his bling and his properties, including the now world-famous Trump Tower, is obviously not the question.
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Within a year of King Ying Low's closure, Full Court Press — one of two restaurant groups that owns the majority of restaurants in downtown Des Moines known for opening kitschy, popular bars — bought the space.
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But the kitschy and sort of baroque landscape wallpaper of the New Jersey motel in which the video was shot is a testament to the longstanding commodification of nature since the dawn of art history.
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But his pioneering impact can still be seen all over the fashion world—from the kitschy designs of Jeremy Scott and Gerlan Jeans to the black business success of brands like Sean John and FUBU.
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There doesn't seem to be much widespread protest when restaurants offer bologna-stuffed sandwiches emblazoned with Donald Trump's name—or, conversely, revoke his once-kitschy name from a decadent burger due to his presidential campaign.
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We've already seen kitschy sushi conveyer belt VR or even using VR to change the taste of cookies, but few augmented realities are as practical for the home cook as the one envisioned by Rouffet.
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You might know Bonobos for its better-fitting pants and kitschy prints; you might also know that its birds-of-paradise trousers — and chili-pepper shirts, and the rest of its offerings — are cut for men.
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Among other kitschy trends, from beaded bags to cowrie shell jewelry, neon has found a way to shed its tacky history and take on a more sophisticated approach (thanks for the kick in the butt, Kim).
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We're a few days away from Mother's Day, which means it's time to prep your breakfast-in-bed menus, pick out a cute and kitschy card, and comb through your #TBTs for the perfect Instagram throwback.
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Bright and engaging surfaces or kitschy animal friends do not replace conceptual or aesthetic considerations for either Cope or Cholnoky — and, in the end, their use of such aesthetics makes that point all the more obvious.
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It's a circumstance familiar to Pitbull, with GQ naming him one of the 22009 worst rappers of all time (along with Britney Spears's ex-husband Kevin Federline) and rap snobs deriding him as a kitschy sellout.
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Ukrainian singer Jamala's melancholic tune about Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's 1944 deportation of the Crimean Tatars was crowned the winner of the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest early Sunday, an unusual choice for the kitschy pop fest.
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My boyfriend and I chose this hotel for the views it would afford over the kitschy nautical decor floating through the harbor, though, we'd gladly return to stay there at other times of the year, too.
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And we'd be remiss not to mention Quant also created the hot pant, brought out diffusion lines, and a makeup range — complete with collectable, kitschy packaging — and was the UK's highest profile designer of the time.
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Via repertory screenings, laserdiscs, CD-ROMs, DVDs, and the Internet Archive, he's made a lot these materials available, and has encouraged cinephiles to see them not as kitschy jokes, but as vital pieces of American history.
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Gaga loves showing off her range of reference, and does so in this video with what looks like a Mad Max outtake, a kitschy '80s monster rave, and several references to a very famous cowboy actor.
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Many of these objects are admittedly slightly kitschy, but the unexpected shedding of pages — what makes books symbols of knowledge — to simply having the image of a book around you is what makes blooks particularly endearing.
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A virtuoso chameleon possessing an amazing range of skills, he does Surrealism, Pop Art, Abstract Expressionism, Conceptualism, cartoons and comic strips, psychedelic posters and myriad kitschy illustration styles all with his own endlessly inventive, comedic twist.
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The night would prove delightfully surreal throughout, featuring the explosive feminist noise reggaeton of La Sucias, the eerie percussive summonings of Voicehandler, the kitschy electro-drag of Kevin Blechdom, and a sculptural synth ritual from MSHR.
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When you order your sandwich, they give you a laminated photo with some kind of kitschy figure or child star instead of an order number, and they call it out when your food's ready: Jonathan Lipnicki!
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Galentine's Day, a mock-holiday turned real holiday (sort of) got its start when Amy Poehler's Parks protagonist, Leslie Knope, gave us a new reason to get brunch with our friends and give out kitschy gifts.
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The sentiment applies to the kitschy Americana rest stops along Route 66, small structures with parking, picnic tables, and toilets, many of which are being replaced by fast food joints or demolished as states cut budgets.
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Consider Julian Schnabel's brawny Neo-Expressionist paintings, Cindy Sherman's canny, staged self-portraits, Jeff Koons's sumptuous sculptures of kitschy objects and Barbara Kruger's suavely designed leftist agitprop: The '21981s abounded in eye- and mind-grabbing work.
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It looks like what you'd expect to find in an Indian pizza parlor roughly 40 years ago: blue place settings, kitschy posters, and a collection of promotional mirrors touting Indian brews from Kingfisher to Flying Horse.
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This goal is realized through a series of scenes in which our fumbling characters try to impose order on chaos in the Washington State wilderness (rendered in a wonderfully kitschy great outdoors setting by Kimie Nishikawa).
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" Even Urban Outfitters, among rows of floral mini-dresses, offers a collection of witch-themed goods: a "self-love" spell kit with candles and crystals, and kitschy books that promise to help "tap your inner sorceress.
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I want to be clear: I am saying all of this as someone who has devoted my professional life to books, who enjoys a kitschy book tote and has huffed many a page in my time.
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From her spread legs rises a kitschy, thrift-store Easter egg that pictures a sweet domestic scene of anthropomorphized yellow ducks; above the egg rises a blond knockoff of Betty Boop giving a come-hither wink.
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His kitschy, boudoir-style salon — replete with red velvet curtains and bubble-gum-pink backwash chairs — in the buzzy neighborhood of Montorgueil, attracts a wide range of clientele, from buttoned-up bourgeois sexagenarians to fashion students.
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This genius combination of Christmas string lights and phone charger borders the line between kitschy and adorable, but I first saw it on Apartment Therapy, and I trust their judgment when it comes to cute items.
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Once it caught his eye, he started making 90-minute drives to The Wildwoods to photograph the area's kitschy, '50s-era motels, all of which were emblazoned with names like Isle of Capri, Monaco, and Caribbean.
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Your mom—or the local thrift store—has an old fondue pot in the back of her closet somewhere, and with it, you have the perfect kitschy (and kirsch-y) way to start your dinner party.
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Anyone who actually attended church in the '90s will marvel at the paper worship service program for the "Tree of Love" church, perfectly accurate down to the summary of recent tithing and the kitschy homemade logo.
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The show's monochrome palette is perhaps the only effort to ascribe a sense of contemporary coolness to an assemblage of found objects and source material that runs the gamut from folksy to kitschy to downright garish.
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Even a show like Pretty Little Liars, which was fueled by an endless stream of murder and bloody intrigue, boiled down to love triangles, a hilariously kitschy killer board game, and just a little bit of optimism.
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It may sound a bit kitschy, but before you dismiss the disco ball, consider the fact that everyone from Bravo host Andy Cohen to writer Brooke Metcalfe has found a way to incorporate one into their homes.
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Mother sets Pakistani woman on fire Earlier this week Baloch had stirred up more controversy by releasing a kitschy music video on YouTube called "Ban," which mocked some of the restrictions that she had been subjected to.
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In time, "Wolf Warrior 2" might seem benignly kitschy, though its core ideas about how only the Chinese military can save a nameless African country from bloodthirsty native rebels and amoral European mercenaries, will always be gross.
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I'm debating whether or not this is going to be around in two weeks," says Todd, "Or maybe it's just getting started, since it plays into that kitschy collectible toy culture that's been going on for decades.
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Gary and Larry Lane will never be A-listers, but they've met show business on its own terms — happily marinating in the kitschy, silly, matchily-dressed work that the industry offers those who've shared the same womb.
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On this occasion, Amber filled a kitschy glass vase shaped like the Leaning Tower of Pisa and various old silver creamers with short-stemmed roses, peonies and ranunculus sourced from the Piazza della Repubblica market in Florence.
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Political rallies in the Philippines are known for their loud, kitschy, Hollywood-style entertainment, and now Mayor Sara Duterte, the president's daughter, and her brother, Paolo, a former vice mayor, led the party slate across the stage.
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The latest from the brand has been a game-changer in my routine for more reason than its kitschy name (that, yes, my formerly pink sweatsuit-owning self still gets a kick out of) — it actually works.
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Maybe it makes you feel uneasy to order dried meat from the same place you might purchase a kitschy, home-knitted quilt, but Johnson swears that this is where you'll find the purest meat on the market.
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Sure, you could find frustration in that hour spent by your lonesome in a kitschy Jamaican-themed restaurant in downtown Chicago—especially knowing the R&B singer is meticulously dressing himself in a hotel room many floors above.
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The streaming series ditches the shiny, kitschy vaneer of the Melissa Joan Hart version of the Archie Comics character we remember from childhood for an actually chilling adventure influenced by the likes of The Exorcist and Rosemary's Baby.
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But over the course of their 10-year-career, the group has evolved far beyond its roots as a cleverly kitschy country revival into a deeper, more creative unit, which is a shame, because now they're breaking up.
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If you've ever stepped foot in a crystal shop, you know the kitschy, hippie-meets-Spencer Pratt vibes you'll likely encounter — the world of products with "healing properties" can feel intimidating and off-putting (see: here and here).
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Exhibitions range from the straightforwardly informative (an exhibition showcasing different historic translations of the Bible from all over the world) to the kitschy (a recreation of a Palestinian village in the time of Christ, complete with costumed docents).
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It seemed at first as if Fonseca was making a kitschy, dishonest attempt to claim the natural material richness of the stone as an artwork while also reducing it to a background for his own half-baked ideas.
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The Madonna Inn, a kitschy hotel and restaurant that Paul Goldberger called "the richest collection of stage sets since the back lot at 20th‐Century Fox" in a 1975 Times review, is also five minutes away by car.
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Maybe it doesn't matter much when that same room contains the kitschy spectacles of Thomas Kinkade alongside Beatrix Potter drawings and Henry Moore's monumental "Reclining Figure: Bunched" (1973/74) tapestry — complete with a preliminary drawing by Moore himself.
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Replacing last season's just-rolled-out-of-bed-but-still-look-cute ensemble is a new take on athleisure comprised of high-waist leggings, kitschy graphic tees, oversized denim jackets and of course, fashion's newest obsession – sporty 'Dad' sneakers.
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I'm assuming he skips the wipes and the opening crawl because those are so tied to Lucas' conception of the Star Wars franchise as a kitschy old-school pop serial, and Edwards wants to be a lot more serious.
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The retro '80s mash-up short Kung Fury made the improbable leap from kitschy Kickstarter project to the Cannes Film Festival, and now it will be getting a feature-length sequel starring Prometheus and Steve Jobs star Michael Fassbender.
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There is a kitschy velvet painting of a bald eagle, an oil painting of Drake dancing and a transfixing rendition of a naked Justin Bieber with maple syrup pouring down his chest onto a pancake balanced on his boner.
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A cottage industry has sprung up "reimagining"/creeping on Disney's men as much as the women for an audience of both gay men and straight women: They are given Tinder and Grindr profiles, given kitschy moustaches or grey hair.
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The faux-futuristic, theatrically-upbeat work of Schöffer — which some might critique as kitschy screen-saver eye-candy — finds conceptual counter-relevance in our time when new cybernetic dystopias are emerging within our viral and bot infected information society.
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He walks us through a grisly narrative that combines kitschy "spookiness" with a somewhat reductionist view of the trials, portraying them purely as the result of ignorant superstition, even as he uses the tropes of magic for dramatic effect.
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Hardcore's kitschy exhibition design does little to dispel the notion that the films and photographs on view are dirty, or even shameful, begging the question: how would Hardcore make its bygone porn collectors feel — liberated, or just plain embarrassed?
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Two lawyers with a passion for music, Cliff Chenfeld and Craig Balsam, had formed Razor & Tie in 1990, initially selling compilations like "Monster Ballads" and "Those Fabulous '70s" via direct-to-consumer television commercials that were themselves kitschy delights.
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It's kitschy, retro, campy and bohemian, where locals and visitors alike walk barefoot along the 254-square-mile island that's full of 19th century built homes in Caribbean colors, open-air restaurants and bars and cheap bed and breakfasts.
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Combined with the chapel-like atmosphere and the evocation of canonical sacred art, the effect is truly dizzying: a cocktail of the disturbing, the comforting, the cute, the somber, and the kitschy, with overtones of the sacred and sublime.
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"I had a concern that people wouldn't want to see this work," says Dunn, who has instead focused on kitschy pop iconography culled from the depths of his subconscious, despite PES's penchant for work that addresses pertinent socio-political issues.
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Trump's claims about immigrants, unemployment, and the freed prisoners were all false and these distortions combined with his kitschy stagecraft -- riding down to the crowd on a golden escalator, hiring extras to cheer -- to make him seem like a cartoon figure.
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But, even with those details, there is a hint New Girl would end becoming exactly what it now is, a comedy about a woman who loves kitschy things, but is far more than her Pikachu cap or Jam-bouree t-shirt.
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But the company has had some rocky times since the OG matching set's heyday, including having its co-founders decamp and having to shut down its retail presence as the tracksuit moved from must-have item to kitschy novelty territory.
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Simmons via Baby Phat, helped meld together the worlds of high-fashion and hip-hop, in a way that wasn't kitschy or forced, because it was merely a reflection of her lifestyle as the model wife of a hip-hop mogul.
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As creative director of Moschino, Scott has championed a cheeky aesthetic that riffs off pop culture: The designer has a penchant for turning the basic into luxury, as demonstrated by his kitschy salutes to McDonalds, The Powerpuff Girls, and even Barbie.
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You'll find ha gow (shrimp dumplings), gin cha siu bow (pan-fried barbecue pork buns), and chung yao ban (scallion pancakes) alongside larger meat dishes, noodles, and other classics, all served in a low-ceilinged room full of kitschy, collected treasures.
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A similar logic is at work in The Genealogy of the Supermarket (2005–ongoing), a bizarre family tree comprised of product icons displayed in kitschy frames and splayed across fussy red wallpaper, as if in some supermarket-size living room.
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If all of this sounds dumb - the smell of pedestrianised weed, the grandiose expectation of wanting to be moved, the cute, kitschy backdrop of the Michelberger hotel, a thousand miles from Bon Iver's home of Wisconsin - then perhaps it is.
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The walls are plastered in old Burt Reynolds-y porn, along with kitschy dirty stuff on the TV, and you can't have your cellphone out, or a drag queen calls you names and shames you for being averse to human interaction.
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Mr. Cyrus, though never quite respected for his music or hairstyle, has managed to stretch his down-home charisma, distinctive look and willingness to engage with the kitschy and the lowbrow into a constantly regenerating career of nearly 25 years.
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As friends and muses of the designer ("We're like his No. 1 hype girls," Cailli said), they would be sitting front row, wearing the kitschy, pop clothes Mr. Scott designs for his other label, Moschino, which seem tailor-made for them.
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We have an innate aesthetic that appeals to us—which is hard to describe but which often involves clean lines, the right visual balance of colors and geometries, quality in construction, and the absence of anything superfluous or jokey/kitschy.
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The L.A. Phil, under the baton of Susanna Mälkki, its principal guest conductor, gave a brilliant account of the score, but the staging failed to do justice to Sibelius's mercurially shifting moods, which range from kitschy sweetness to explosions of dissonance.
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His kinetic environmental sculpture "Le Prisme" (The Prism, 1965) created the stage set for the 1968 cyber-kitschy music clip Contact, that has a frigid Brigitte Bardot in metallic dress (by Rabanne) robotically chanting a teensy song by Serge Gainsbourg.
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Built into the northern slopes of Haleakala Crater just outside of Makawao, Kula Lodge is as much a time capsule as a hotel — it opened in 1951 and is known for its rustic, kitschy charm (rocking chairs and floral bedspreads).
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LOS ANGELES — On a slightly scuzzy strip of Sunset Boulevard, past the faded rock 'n' roll memorabilia and oddly psychedelic trappings of a kitschy Thai restaurant (Quentin Tarantino's favorite), out the back and down the stairs, is a one-room studio.
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Those in the market for kitschy but cute souvenirs will want to stop in at The Island Shop, and you can also find the Bermuda Aquarium, Natural History Museum and Zoo here, as well as the interactive Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute.
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Today, the park's Technicolor slope-roofed buildings and non-thrill rides are a kitschy throwback that draws dedicated fans fueled by nostalgia, who return with their children or grandchildren to share their childhood experience of seeing Santa and his reindeer.
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On a January evening in Guntersville, Jeff Sessions paid a visit to Wintzell's Oyster House, a kitschy seafood restaurant popular in Alabama, the local branch of which was the site of the monthly meeting of the Marshall County Republican Party.
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Nothing conjures a certain kind of millennial cool more than the word "Bushwick," and Bowen Goh and Vanessa Li's bar Mood Ring translates whatever that is into a tucked-away bar studded with kitschy-chic work from artists in the area.
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Born into a wealthy family in Paris, Picabia was a notorious playboy as well as an artist—a connoisseur of fast cars whose career raced through Impressionism, Cubism, Dadaism, and Surrealism, followed by kitschy nude pinups and Art Informel abstractions.
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The kitschy, kimono-clad white actors who have often been cast in Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Mikado" have stirred outrage in recent years, setting off a debate about whether that 1885 piece can be acceptably presented to a modern audience.
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The décor, inspired by Mr. González's 12th-century summer house in Florence, Italy, includes a kitschy 1950s garden table made out of a giant tree trunk and a folding cash desk painted with wild horses that he found in Turin, Italy.
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Located in what was once a high school and later an arts school that has been converted into artist workshops, his studio is a chaotic maze of kitschy toys, cutouts of main figures in graphic stories and shelves of weighty books.
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Click here to view original GIFThe Stylophone started life as a kitschy electronic toy instrument—the digital version of the kazoo, if you will—but over the years has slowly developed new sounds and features making it more than just a novelty.
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Asked that question, Marc Fumaroli, a French historian and member of the Académie Française who has long railed against institutions including Versailles and the Pompidou for sullying their hallowed public spaces with works by kitschy — and popular — artists like Mr. Koons, laughed.
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When we think about the concept of "decorating for Halloween," what comes to mind is mostly the scattering of kitschy pumpkins and stringy spiderwebs — stuff that was fun when we were kids, but that doesn't really suit our personal style right now.
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First, let go of this idea that you can't enjoy something that's been featured in a guide book or has a kitschy vibe, then make your way to this historic North Beach bar haunted by the ghosts of literary giants like Jack Karouac.
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Sure, there's something kitschy about the idea of having a modern haberdashery, but the sheer specificity of an entire store dedicated to things you can put on your head is reassuring if for no other reason than you know these people mean business.
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What most Americans knew to be Hawaiian music during this time was what Hawaiians called hapa haole—bastardized mainland takes on island sounds that were usually sexualized and racist caricatures of their culture, as seen in Elvis' kitschy romantic comedy Blue Hawaii.
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For all these Romanian actors to know that they were going to be dubbed and still care enough to "get it," and to crush this tone that's really tough to get—they're self-aware, a little kitschy yet still emotionally connected to it.
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The owner, who says he intends to reopen in a new location, does not strike one as an especially ardent anti-Semite, nor as a neo-Nazi; he seems mostly to like the look of his kitschy collection of Third Reich memorabilia.
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A huge Greek Revival residence had regal bones, but its porch and yard were strewn with rolled-up carpets, fur-collared coats and kitschy paintings of kittens in preparation for a "Barn & Yard Sale" that seemed, perhaps, to take place every weekend.
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The hit kicked off a long tradition of (mostly) white jazz musicians cribbing influence from the music of the Global South, a trend which would continue through the development of kitschy subgenres like lounge, fusion, and smooth jazz in the decades to come.
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Stroll through Motoko Town, as the aging arcade is called, to poke around bric-a-brac shops filled floor-to-ceiling with 2475th-century computers, for example, or kitschy belt buckles, or, somewhat disturbingly, military uniforms from the United States and Germany.
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The kitschy, crafty aspect Rolón assosciates with his family, while the history of macrame--originating in North Africa, brought to Spain with the Moors, and then spread out to the wider, Spanish speaking world—ties the plant hangers in to global history.
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In the meantime, she moves into a rental house filled with kitschy paintings that draw on occult imagery and makes friends with Trish (Laura Waddell), with whom she has tea at an all-women's tea shop that is the embodiment of pink frilliness.
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But there is still plenty to do and see in the multicultural capital while skirting the edge of the crowds: Museums shed light on historic Hawaii; chefs offer updated takes on traditional ingredients; and bars concoct new versions of kitschy aloha cocktails.
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He also researched the clever, sweet-and-sour music of the leading (and sometimes only) Ondioline player, Perrey, and had it transcribed for an ensemble that played it neatly, elegantly and fully awareness of how kitschy some of the tunes could be.
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He chooses hues that evoke his personal influences: the kitschy vibrancy of the Harajuku neighborhood of Tokyo; characters in "Sailor Moon," a manga series he watched as a child; the bright funeral banners that his mother made from artificial flowers for a living.
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" United: Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good " (Ballantine), Booker's kitschy chronicle of his climb from mayor of Newark to U.S. senator, imagines a post-segregation America, the pure sweetness of raisins in a tub of vanilla ice cream.
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He chooses hues that evoke his personal influences: the kitschy vibrancy of the Harajuku neighborhood of Tokyo; characters in "Sailor Moon," a manga series he watched as a child; the bright funeral banners that his mother made from artificial flowers for a living.
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And if you're not ready to make a lifetime commitment to an ugly sweater, Rent the Runway will now rent you one for $15 and take it back after four days, lest it pollute your closet with its kitschy vibe by staying longer.
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Currin coopts the kitschy appeal of midcentury pinups and retrofits it to make what purports to be a quasi-feminist statement about the female body, but like many of Currin's nude portraits, once you cash in its cheap sociology, you're left with little else.
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But if not for the context — for Bowie's reputation as a formal innovator, for the uncritical respect we feel inclined to give the album as a dying man's last — this music would also sound horrendously kitschy, and much of it does even in context.
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Yet, Mr. Gandhi said, he tried to avoid the "kitschy, traditional stereotype of what Western people have about India," in part by using a minimalist design on the outside of the boxes — a look that matches the aesthetic of his sleek office in central Mumbai.
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We might get a sense of how well these things sold next year, but it's tough to imagine merch will keep Snap afloat given it's sold kitschy items like towels and plushies before, and people just aren't excited about them as they used to be.
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This year alone, pastels and neon hues managed to overthrow gloomy shades of gray and black, kitschy jewelry and bags replaced classic and, dare we say, boring, styles, and chunky sneakers and sandals are responsible for giving our feet a much-needed vacation from heels.
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Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst Shaw occasionally creeps into the headlines these days as a champion show dog trainer, a figure of enduring curiosity with a past string of minor roles as an actress on TV and in the kitschy films of director John Waters.
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But Dr. Jonathan Zizmor, 70, was so much more than a doctor; he was a larger-than-life figure lighting up New York City's subways with ads so campy, so kitschy, they wouldn't even fit in at a Route 66-themed diner in 1980s Denmark.
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On a recent tour of the Golden 1 Center construction site, a team official pointed out the framework for the new visiting locker room, which will be rich in amenities — and pretty much the opposite of the visiting locker room at the kitschy old arena.
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In those "Ölschinken" (an untranslatable German word for kitschy oil paintings), the German national election is portrayed as part of the Great War of our times, the next battle between liberal cosmopolitanism and nationalism, along with the elections in Austria, France and the Netherlands.
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Those albums — including its 23 debut, "21991 Feet High and Rising," a platinum record in the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry — are some of the genre's most influential and sonically adventurous, threading samples from obscure, kitschy records alongside recognizable pop, jazz and funk hooks.
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They go to Clown Bar for the intimate room, which is as elegant as it is kitschy; for the wine list, which is full of obscure and wonderful choices; and for the food, which is unmistakably Gallic — turbot with white asparagus, roast pigeon, veal sweetbreads.
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No episode shows this off better than season one's fourth episode ("The Restaurant"), in which Nate and Robin agree to stop at a kitschy theme restaurant that turns out to be more like a rabbit hole of confusing cultural appropriation and vodka-soaked depravity.
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We visited many kitschy cuckoo clock stores, all apparently called "House of 1,000 Clocks," and a very modern German Clock Museum, which had one singular and magnificent cuckoo specimen, but was otherwise a standard glass-displayed history of time-telling accompanied by all-German labels.
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Next, we walked to the kitschy restaurant La Corriente Cevichería Nais and tried the Taco Kalifornia, shrimp and cheese stuffed in a pepper and shrouded in a tortilla, and a Pacifica Tostada, a ceviche of tuna, lemon juice, hot sauce, serrano peppers,and onions.
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The performance pieces volley between hypnotic and kitschy (there's footage of her in 2011 on "America's Got Talent"), and interest in them is a prerequisite for a movie that, by design, pushes the boundaries of T.M.I. (although the home movie footage is quite tender).
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In 90-degree Tuscan heat, boys and girls drifted past in high ruffled necklines and heavy-duty felt military coats covered in rich brocade, kitschy brown double-G emblazoned PVC and fur striped jackets and oversize white shearling leather bombers with fringing on the arms.
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In Designed for Hi-Fi Living: The Vinyl LP in Midcentury America, recently released by the MIT Press, authors Janet Borgerson and Jonathan Schroeder delve beneath the kitschy album art to explore how this genre of mood music reflected an era of shifting desires.
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Certainly the lawn jockeys are signifiers of larger vexing problems having to do with race relations in America, yet the gesture doesn't resonate as a fully reasoned response; rather, it is lost among the gossamer of netting, strung beads, and collection of kitschy items.
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In a little over a generation, right-leaning, working-class whites went from defining America — being the standard, the base model, the hard-working, self-reliant American dream made flesh, about which kitschy songs are written — to being, in their view, an embattled minority.
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Radamés "Juni" Figueroa at Proyectos Ultravioleta's booth offers a kitschy, obvious way to self-medicate: his paintings take the form of enlarged objects that generally calm and comfort, from a bottle of Klonopin to a slice of pizza to a joint and freshly packed pipe.
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Perhaps not, but the chefs here are true performers (see those egg juggling skills in my video below!), and in my mind it gives you everything that you could want out of a cruise ship meal: kitschy fun, performance art, passenger comradery…oh, and great food.
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The music backing his shtick varied over the years, as was appropriate: stark, barely accompanied acoustic with intermittent orchestration in the early years; glitzy synthesizer and soulfully girly backup singers since the mid-'80s; kitschy, maximal, wall-of-sound pseudosoul when Phil Spector produced him, etc.
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Her image turned up in unexpected places—on a women's studies syllabus that reproduced her striding across the cover of the first issue of Ms. Magazine, in a kitschy belt with a double-W buckle that I couldn't resist buying in a Seattle boutique but never wore.
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On conceptual and formal terms, there is something interesting about how Ingels takes one step backward and two steps forward, while avoiding some of the worst tendencies of postmodern architecture's kitschy, ersatz neohistoricism, yet there is nevertheless something rather generically corporatist about his 2 WTC design.
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There's a whole room of vintage clothing (including original Levi's and Lee denim, wedding dresses and unusual sneakers), bicycles from the 0003s, kitschy decorative items like porcelain parrots, vinyl records and an array of giftable local items (Swedish candy, homemade soaps, specialty loose-leaf teas and herbs).
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For five years, Craft Master honed the assembly and distribution of their kits, employing professional artists to develop the kitschy scenes that quickly came to be inextricably associated with the paint-by-number genre — flowers, bullfighters, fishermen, dancers, landscapes, even copies of famous works of art.
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He spent his time exploring the largely neglected heritage of the country: the ruins of the 11th-century fortress of Bost in Lashkar Gah in Helmand; the 80-feet-high murals of pastel palm trees and kitschy crescent moons at the Eid Gah Mosque in Kandahar.
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Venture beyond kitschy key chains in the ubiquitous Waikiki souvenir stands to find Honolulu's active crafts scene at the South Shore Market, a sort of mini-mall housing boutiques, art exhibitions and even a family-owned sweets shop selling macadamia "snowball" cookies and chocolate-dipped mango.
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The show, designed by James Morgan as a kitschy American-style Arcadian bower, may sound hokey when it speaks, but when it raises its voice to sing (oh, the bliss of "How Are Things in Glocca Morra?" and "Old Devil Moon"), it flies to immortal heights.
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Many a crush was nursed within those carpeted walls, where kitschy pop and disco songs were requested one-by-one on steady rotation, the smell of stale nachos and body odor permeated the air, and beige skates were rented out with questionable aromas of their own.
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Between the now-iconic A Christmas Prince, which started a three-parts-at-minimum franchise, 2019's The Princess Switch, and now 2020's The Knight Before Christmas, premiering Thursday, November 21, we know we can expect some delightfully kitschy holiday rom-coms from the streamer.
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Flying Lotus, Shlohmo, Rustie, Baauer, Bonobo, and more have all crafted tracks that feature sounds drawn from the Star Wars universe, and if the whole enterprise sounds a little kitschy, the Brainfeeder boss himself took to Apple Music's Beats 153 station today to demonstrate proof of concept.
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I set aside the dopey, bumbling manner of his technique, the kitschy stencil borders, the garish dissonant color of the Reaper backgrounds, the clumsy drawing outlining his devils, and explored the possibility that Smith's art is not in his painting but in the act of making the paintings.
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Minchin is not a household name yet, but he is a semi-famous Australian who also wrote the lauded musical Matilda and appears to be elbowing into the overtly sentimental, benignly kitschy musical theatre space that has been occupied by Andrew Lloyd Webber for the last three decades.
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The Scharf/Haring pairing, combined with Julia Wachtel's "Membership" (13393), a painting that facilely juxtaposes kitschy greeting card imagery with a black-and-white rendering of matching African fertility figures, seems to signal that the Geist of the decade was bent toward crowd-pleasing hijinks and elitist condescension.
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We haven't entirely been able to make up our minds on whether the real draw at this new hot spot is the series-based kitschy-ness, or the fact that Ramsay's restaurants are actually highly reputable dining destinations (his cooking empire combined boasts quite a few Michelin stars).
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Since then, drag queens and impersonators of women have gone from kitschy 1930s comedy acts enjoyed by everyone alike to gay club acts where publicity would risk criminal charges, including transvestitism, prostitution, sodomy, and other "lewd and lascivious" acts that officers generally considered offensive, until around the 1970s.
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" I hear the same thing from a woman whose stall sells a mishmash of religious iconography and kitschy wine bottle holders: Asked why business has been slower after the raids, she tells me (as if knowing she's stating an obvious truth), "Because people are afraid to go out.
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Wednesday and protagonist Shadow Moon are driving through the snow on the way to the House on the Rock, a kitschy Wisconsin roadside attraction, where they'll convene a meeting with a group of the "Old Gods," the mythical deities brought to the US by immigrants over the centuries.
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EUSA's title is, clearly, a portmanteau of "EU" and "USA," and its subject matter is an exploration of cultural imitation taken to the extreme: America-themed parks in Europe and Europe-themed festivals in America, kitschy simulacra of eras and histories to which many attendees have little connection.
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When my fiancé and I got engaged late last year, we jumped right on the highly personal, non-traditional wedding bandwagon, deciding on a Las Vegas elopement for the big day, replete with a kitschy ceremony at A Little White Wedding Chapel officiated by an Elvis Presley impersonator.
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It became something of a pop-culture icon, a kitschy symbol of the consumer-tech future we clawed toward then, and which we seem to have reached today: in a world where Siri and Alexa are always listening for your next command, what's novel about a rechargeable pet?
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It's worth noting that a part of Houellebecq's Palais de Tokyo exhibition that drew much commentary in 2016 but is absent in the Manhattan show consisted of a series of images paying tribute to his dead corgi, Clément, including kitschy watercolors of the dog by Houellebecq's ex-wife.
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We chat more about enneagram types now that I've listened to the podcast episode that she recommended, and then head out to go catch the bus to "Santa's Village," a tourist attraction just outside of Rovaniemi that we know will be a little kitschy, but still want to see.
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The dispute is perhaps best illustrated by the hundreds of statues and monuments highlighting the glories of ancient Macedonia, a product of an extraordinarily kitschy building spree in Skopje that was led by then-Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, before he was arrested and tried on graft and wiretapping charges.
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When my father took me on Yosemite climbing trips in the 1980s, we never stayed at the Ahwahnee — it costs a fortune — but Dad always brought clean dress shirts so that we could hang out in the Ahwahnee's kitschy Indian Room Bar before we slept illegally under the evergreens.
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The night of Krewe du Vieux, I got to take one of my Lyft drivers, Michael J. Hill, to an after-party at The Pearl, a kitschy underground event space in the Marigny district filled with all manner of odd objects, including a sculpture of a full-size ostrich.
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The image seemed like a kitschy, failed attempt at humor, which nevertheless also sought to make a discerning observation about Obama: that he has borne the burden of the legacies of all the presidents who came before him precisely because the nation had never had a black man in office before.
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If you like your Socialist souvenirs even more kitschy, head to Ampelmann, south of Alexanderplatz, a shop that sells images of the "traffic light man," an East German symbol that has become iconic since the fall of the Wall, on everything from golf balls to coffee mugs to T-shirts.
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While we usually rely on the typical arbiters of high-end style, like Chanel or Dior, to dictate to us what the future of our wardrobes will look like, young upstart brands like Vetements are increasingly causing a major disruption in the industry with their street savvy designs and kitschy sensibility.
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In his second act, he became a successful fine artist by scavenging thrift-stores for paintings of landscapes and using them as backgrounds for word paintings that position oversize ironic phrases like "Clusterfuck" and "LSD" and "Maybe Now I'll Get The Respect I So Richly Deserve" alongside kitschy barnyard scenes.
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For any filmmaker foolhardy enough to embark on a remake of "Ben-Hur," the kitschy 1959 sword-and-sandals epic that captured 11 Oscars and elevated Charlton Heston to Hollywood sainthood, the first order of business is to create a bigger and better version of that movie's climactic chariot race.
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The author's primary aim in this monograph (published by Berghahn Books) is to demonstrate that the director's arguably kitschy, cutesy, and girly aesthetic does not equal "mere frippery," but that, beneath a pretty surface, Coppola's films examine important issues, especially in terms of patriarchal society's rarified and sanitized ideal of womanhood.
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Though the Tam O'Shanter was a clubby hangout for Disney executives in the 1950s, the lunchtime crowd that now fills the kitschy pub is a more diverse representation of the city: elderly couples with their elbows locked together, immigrant families and groups of young women, clinking their pints of beer.
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It's the same every time: She's obsessed with her Valentino pumps in the days leading up to stealing them, she can't stop thinking about them, from the pink, sheer lace to the fake gems embroidered across the toes, to the kitten heel that makes what's so kitschy about them slightly demure.
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But when my nephew was born, I was 25 and waiting tables at a kitschy bar in New York City, which is code for dancing on-slash-falling off of barstools and throwing up in public, not so much awaiting my chance to squeeze a child out of a hole in my body.
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Known for creating crocheted masterpieces that turn the kitschy handicraft on its head, Agata Oleksiak, the Polish artist more commonly known as Olek, never ceases to amaze her audience with her works, from a fully-functional crocheted carousel to intricately hand-crocheted artworks covering live human models installed in a Williamsburg bank.
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Works as diverse as pottery, Crow Ledger drawings and a model Cheyenne tipi cover are shown together with contemporary works, such as Wendy Red Star's iconic "Four Seasons," an ironic tetralogy of self-portraits in which the artist poses amidst emphatically kitschy Native Americana props, mocking reductive Western stereotypes of complex indigenous cultures.
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Films like A Quiet Place and Bird Box have gone to the other extreme by inverting this overstimulation, while Netflix's recent forays into the genre have signaled a return to a more traditional, kitschy horror that has brought us the campy Babysitter and that film where Jake Gyllenhaal is haunted by some paintings.
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Featuring Hannah's signature soprano going at full pelt, and the kitschy Euro-influenced production that we have come to know and love from PC Music, "Make Believe" is now your go-to track to start a mass kitchen fist-pump, should you happen to be handed the aux cord at a Christmas party.
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"There's a kitschy-ness to them that people love," said Jenna Spesard, a blogger who writes about tiny houses, lives in a 160-square-foot dwelling and acts as the host at the new Mount Hood Tiny House Village, a collection of five small houses to rent on a campground in northern Oregon.
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Perhaps its healing properties are no longer held in such high esteem, but the device has retained a certain kitschy charm: a whoopee cushion with shoulder pads that acts as a to-go cup for thermal springs; a just-add-water delivery system for the most unfailing source of comfort of all, warmth.
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While their earlier material was raw-edged and hulking, "One More Time" and the rest of its parent album Discovery saw them mine a kitschy retro-futuristic sonic aesthetic that had one foot in the incredibly French electronica of Didier Marouani and Space, and the other in sample-heavy deep house melodicism.
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And while Field Music's fourth studio album—with its lush strings and woodwind skipping into jaunty electronic drums and almost kitschy horns—is as direct a response to that cataclysm as you'll find in art-pop (or anywhere), it is compelling because it doesn't pretend to know precisely what the hell happened.
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And it can be harnessed to breathe new life into existing institutions, such as the kitschy old-timey-signage enveloping Di Fara's pizza stall at the N3 Food Hall in Williamsburg (new, but made to look like the exterior of the Midwood original, which underwent a temporary closure last year for non-payment of taxes).
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Mr Qiu's map makes you think of Grayson Perry's maps, Xu Tan's kitschy interiors of Tracey Emin, Huang Yong Ping's broken aeroplane of the Algerian Adel Abdessemed and Cao Fei's sizzling coloured metropolises of the work of Bodys Isek Kingelez from Congo, which was shown to such great effect in Paris earlier this year.
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There is Whiteheadian weirdness — hints of strange eugenics experiments; Friday night lynchings staged like vaudeville shows; and a kitschy "living history" museum, where Cora re-enacts a sugarcoated version of plantation life — but it creeps in slowly, with a subtlety that may send some readers to Google to check their memories of high school history.
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Gibson, she tells me, is careful not to use clothing that has actually been used in Native American ceremonies; rather, he only alludes to their persuasive powers (such as the legendary spiritual power of the Lakota tribes's ghost shirts, which were imagined to be bulletproof) and relies on kitschy diasporic glam to complete the work.
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There's no strict system linking her covers of Der Spiegel, which blare about terrorists and the oil crisis, to the kitschy postcards of snow-topped mountains and Dresden's destroyed landmarks; or to the World War I maps with old-style Gothic lettering; or to the reproductions of Pop Art by Warhol, Rauschenberg and Richard Hamilton.
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Certainly, it was more effective than the proposal at Rochas, where Alessandro Dell'Acqua seems to be stuck in a rut of 1940s pastels, kitschy logos (this time in the form of rhinestone "R"s on sweaters, belts and shoes) and zebra striping — which is to say, bits from this decade, and bits from that decade.
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I wouldn't dare spoil the plot twist for you, because that's part of the fun, but what follows is wildly entertaining madcap mayhem involving mistaken identity, amnesia, a pair of stolen gold Egyptian earrings, and an off-camera murder capped off by an utterly insane act involving doves on the stage of a kitschy magic club.
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Max Hooper Schneider at High Art Like entering a mad scientist's lab with a predilection for heavy metal and those kitschy plasma globes you would find at Spencer's in the early 2000s, artist Max Hooper Schneider's booth via High Art was undeniably one of the most unique booths in the entire fair in terms of materials alone.
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And on the women's front, for fall 2016, Ashley Williams transformed the traditional hall patrol piece, adding her own "pierced ears" slogan for a dose of Debbie Harry-cool; deer-clad iterations of the embroidered patch injected a kitschy touch to denim jackets at Miu Miu; and Supreme's Playboy bunny pin became every Insta-kid's prestige purchase.
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In this inactive state, the queer exuberance of the tunic had quieted, but it was easier to see how Gibson's chosen materials — electric blue nylon fringe, digitally printed polyester, vintage Seminole patchwork, metal jingles — fuse traditional artistry with an effusively kitschy kind of craft experimentation that happily confuses the garment's classification as ceremonial or celebratory dress.
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"On one of our shoots we were joking that it was like a remake of the movie 'Bad Girls,'" said Katherine Kleveland, referring to a kitschy 1994 Western starring Drew Barrymore and Andie MacDowell (even at 60 perhaps the archetypical prairie girl and whose actress daughters were early Batsheva adopters) in tight-buttoned bodices and lace-trimmed sweetheart necklines.
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As attendees nursed complimentary cocktails with kitschy names like "The Late Checkout" and "Property Management Punch," Guesty CEO and cofounder Amiad Soto kicked off the event by touting Guesty's recent investments in the New York market, and spoke at length about why he believed everyone should get in on the hot market before it gets even hotter.
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Along with neighborhoods of midcentury modern homes, Craftsman Bungalows and ornate Victorians, there's the birthplace of Tower Records (the Art Deco Tower Theatre and its kitschy, colorful Tower Cafe are both still operating) and the Crocker Art Museum's bright white, modernist expansion, the 125,000-square-foot Teel Family Pavilion, which tripled the museum's size in 2010.
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Immediately, it reminded me of the best memories of him — birthday fishing trips, playing with his model trains, learning to make animal balloons (he was a Shriner clown), and my brother and I lounging in his hammock by the shore of Lake Murray, S.C. Kitschy as it sounds, restoring his T-Bird gave me a new sense of purpose.
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At Poco Loco, a favorite with the young, adrenaline-seeking crowd, place your order at the bar (in English, if you like; there's a good chance your waiter hails from Britain) then head to the small seating area upstairs to find a spot among the kitschy diner posters, Christmas lights and empty soda cans that adorn the walls.
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Paradoxically strong and durable despite its lightness, papier-mâché became an industry; by the mid-21984s, at least 30 English manufacturers were making decorative and useful objects and furniture from it, including tables, chairs and canopy bed frames, though the pieces eventually became too kitschy for even the embellishment-mad Victorians and fell out of fashion.
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The curator of the show, Tomoko Sato, of the Mucha Foundation in Prague, gives that spectral spiritual aspect of his oeuvre (a mystical sensibility that Mucha shared with fellow Bohemian in Paris František Kupka) equal weight, while happily underemphasizing his later work — notable for being bombastic and kitschy and nationalistic — as these paintings, The Slav Epic series, are not in the show.
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Directed by veteran Doctor Who director Douglas Mackinnon, it's a funny, warm treat that fans of the book will find familiar and endearing, from the strong ensemble cast — Michael Sheen in particular shines as the fusty, fastidious angel — to the slightly kitschy production design, which flits between a litany of pleasantly clichéd English aesthetics, from P.G. Wodehouse to Harry Potter.
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" (A 2008 edition originally listed for $180,000 sold out.) Mr. Smeets imagines that the table might even be bought by such a magnate, oblivious to its critical edge but entranced by its price tag and the sheer splash it makes in a living room, "and then he might put that 'Robber Baron' piece next to a very kitschy patinated bronze panther.
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After this vacation, I only have two unforgivable oversights on the Boston Bucket List: I have yet to catch a game at Fenway, and I have never visited Salem (which I've been told is way less kitschy than I imagined, since I basically thought Salem was a 24/7/365 city-wide version of Sleep No More but for the The Crucible).
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The whole film is an exercise in stunt casting—by using actors pre-loaded with kitschy cultural impact like the Rock, Mandy Moore, and Justin Timberlake, Kelly demonstrates how the affected mannerisms of celebrity culture have become embedded within the texture of everyday American life (a tactic Harmony Korine would steal to brilliant effect in Spring Breakers seven years later).
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When: March 3–8 / Thursday: 6–10pm; Friday–Sunday: 11am–22pm ($26) Where: 28 W 210th Street (Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan) Perhaps more so than any other Armory Week fair, Scope is full of extremes: it includes very sharp conceptual work, legitimately cool street art, kitschy Pop paintings, and laughably hokey art that is trying really hard to be, well, extreme.
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" It was, indeed, a festival atmosphere at the opening, with many of the same fixtures as seasonal Midwestern gatherings no doubt taking place in backyards across the metropolitan area: chilled beverages, a delightfully smooth rocking glider, children at play, kitschy lawn ornaments, and a beanbag-tossing game that is known vernacularly as either "Bags" or, more crassly (and hilariously), "Cornhole.
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Slouchy black-and-white sailor-stripe pajama pants or knee-length pleated skirts were teamed with double-C-logo roll-neck cashmere sweaters; boxy bouclé skirt suits had a Sixties silhouette and sea spray palette; and almost every look arrived with a kitschy handbag, including white quilted box bags, rope fisherman totes and round evening clutches shaped like life preservers.
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Amid a status-obsessed, contemporary art scene where the kitschy ironic and the easily identifiable are prime selling points for artists (see: Richard Prince and Andy Warhol), it makes some sense that the man who is becoming the most collectible American furniture designer of the late 2000th century is also considered by many to be the least deserving of that designation.
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In a collection that felt otherwise boring (lots of slouchy silhouettes, cuts that took that whole "club kid" style slightly too far, and a whole bunch of black) these more accessible pieces (which are actually part of their own capsule, available now) felt kitschy, yes, but also wearable, and, frankly, covetable (if Vetements has taught us anything, it's the viral power of a logo'ed item).
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Teatum Jones, the duo that scooped the International Woolmark Prize in New York earlier this year, starts things off in the morning; Shrimps, a label that's catching attention with its kitschy faux-fur offerings, will have its presentation in the late afternoon; and come evening, Alice Archer, praised by London insiders for her ability to make floral embroidery cool again, will show off her latest.
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The notion of risk as being essential to the creative process is palpable throughout her work — her 2017 film "In the Jungle" metaphorizes the artist's journey as a scientist's lonely and dangerous fieldwork in an endearingly kitschy jungle — and the city allows her and others to enact that risk in ways that would be impossible in a city with a more glaring national spotlight.
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Named after the Tokyo district, the music aped the orchestral flourishes of 212s pop maestros like Burt Bacharach, Serge Gainsbourg, Brian Wilson, and Phil Spector, to produce a distinct, kitschy retro sound that was headlined by artists like Pizzicato Five, Fantastic Plastic Machine and Towa Tei; other artists like Buffalo Daughter, Cibo Matto, and Takako Minekawa were also part of the genre, but focused more on creating sounds of the future.
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The images have been compared to something out of a kitschy John Waters film—the self-proclaimed Miss American Dream attacking cameramen; a good girl gone bald—but over the years, they have taken on a more potent, almost mythical meaning thanks to fans and writers who believe Britney's personal trouble (she was placed under two 23 psychiatric holds in 217) and subsequent comeback have made her an unintentional feminist icon.
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The first thing shoppers will see is a life-size re-creation of a tiendita in the window (think a New York bodega) stuffed floor to ceiling with kitschy knickknacks made in Colombia, kaleidoscopic Bon Bon Bum candies alongside typical products of Colombians' daily life such as dishwashing soap; the Colombian sodas Colombiana and Postobon; hair dye; and TVs playing old Miss Colombia pageants, soccer matches and soap operas.
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And believe me, this is a tragedy because in her pre-fame New York period alone, which lasted from 214-21984, Madonna lived more life than most octogenarian carnies, performing in two post punk bands rife with their own kitschy brand of new wave, touring Europe with a disco one-hit-wonder, starring in an 8mm student film that boasts an orgy scene with a transwoman, and bedding art world prodigy, Basquiat.
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Scorsese often juxtaposes LaMotta's baser desires with his Catholicism, to humorous effect — for instance, he meets his second wife Vicky at a church dance; on their first date they rather euphemistically lose a ball in the minigolf hole that is shaped like a church; and we often watch Jake and Vicky in various states of undress in the door to the bedroom, which is flanked by kitschy portraits of Jesus and Mary.
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His focus on the everyday and the undistinguished would continue with "All the Meat You Can Eat," a 2000 show at a gallery in then-rough SoHo, where Mr. Shore exhibited hundreds of dry or kitschy found images — flat picture postcards of hospitals and strip malls, topless pinup girls and F-216 fighter jets — among his own photographs, many shot with the Mick-a-Matic camera, a children's apparatus shaped like Mickey Mouse.
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Ms. Pilon writes about Skate World, the roller rink of her Oregon youth, and what she realizes about its role in her community as it closes: ...Many a crush was nursed within those carpeted walls, where kitschy pop and disco songs were requested one-by-one on steady rotation, the smell of stale nachos and body odor permeated the air, and beige skates were rented out with questionable aromas of their own.
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We imagine a rainbow of collecting, beginning with androgynous, vaguely surreal, and extremely sexual art acquired between the late 1970s and early '90s — think Egon Schiele meets Leonor Fini, but painted on satin — followed by a penchant for fantasy and science-fiction art from the mid '90s through early aughts — Syd Mead, Lebbeus Woods, and the like, but with a dominant purple palette — and, following his conversion to a Jehovah's Witness, a turn to kitschy works with heavy-handed religious iconography — think Thomas Kinkade on steroids.
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Not surprising, given that DIS is essentially a retail assemblage of creative stock-image propagandists, the exhibition also offers a vast array of "collectible" products, like 90€ Telfar cotton tank tops, expensive "artist"-made mint juices, so-called "Hater Blocker Contact Lenses" by Yngve Holen that are billed as "protective charms," projects in collaboration with über-brosocialist brands like HBA (Hood by Air), and performances about the Internet like "How to DISappear in America: The Musical" (2016), which was so painfully kitschy I started to think the whole thing was a joke.
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Here are a few dishes I tried, ranked on a scale of 1 to 4 Britneys (since Ms. Spears is the patron saint of Cheetos, after all): My Cheetos experience was now completos, and I have to say I really enjoyed everything about it, from the kitschy décor (a Cheetos tree, Warholian prints of Burrell and Chesty) to the signature cocktails (the tequila-and-Aperol-based Tipsy Citrus lives up to its name and you may find yourself roaming about pantsless after knocking back three of them) to the deliciously creative dishes (more mac n' cheese, please!).
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