Cherry 2000 is at once a lowbrow action film, lowbrow scifi film, and lowbrow romance.
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The beef burgers come in two forms, highbrow and lowbrow.
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It's a "luscious and haute, lowbrow sandwich," Gabrielle told us.
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Believe it or not, those are really lowbrow, even for us.
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Mr. Ruttenberg is editor of the comedy journal The Lowbrow Reader.
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Jay Ruttenberg is editor of the comedy journal The Lowbrow Reader.
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In true Shakespearean form, amid the tragedy there is lowbrow comic relief.
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What's missing is the more amorphous and lowbrow aesthetic quality called accessibility.
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They said it was too loud, too weird, too lowbrow, too populist.
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With food preferences that run a little toward the lowbrow—Chips Ahoy!
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Jay Ruttenberg is the editor of the comedy journal The Lowbrow Reader.
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I want Mountain Dale to reflect that too: both highbrow and lowbrow.
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Mr. Ruttenberg is the editor of the comedy journal The Lowbrow Reader.
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There's a reason children request songs that are repetitive, silly and lowbrow.
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JS: You have spoken about acrylic paint being a more "lowbrow" medium.
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And don't get me wrong: It's totally fine to love basic, lowbrow things.
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But officials are stepping up efforts to suppress "lowbrow" material online, especially video.
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Granny panties had officially infiltrated the culture in ways both highbrow and lowbrow.
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In other words, there's plenty to reinforce Sandler's reputation as a relatively lowbrow goof.
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Is it harder to mesh that kind of lowbrow bodily humor with serious drama?
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Here at MUNCHIES, we embrace the lowbrow as much as we do the highbrow.
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So, either there's one in New York magazine that's despicable and lowbrow and highbrow.
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In fact, a term was being adopted for this hybrid of highbrow and lowbrow.
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There's something about lowbrow humor and silliness that is a real spice of life.
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By then I had sampled dozens of types of food, both high- and lowbrow.
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The lowbrow metamorphoses into the highbrow, proving that art and fun aren't mutually exclusive.
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It reminds me of the rice from lowbrow Chinese restaurants back home in the States.
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It seems that the cerebral question, "What is art?" can inspire some pretty lowbrow remarks.
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As DeJesus wrote, Spam has always straddled the line between the highbrow and the lowbrow.
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I can't really tell what's highbrow or lowbrow musically—[the distinction] gets on my nerves.
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Believe it or not, the movie, directed by Etan Cohen, then goes even more lowbrow.
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The modern lowbrow (think Sean Hannity or Dinesh D'Souza) ignores normal journalistic or intellectual standards.
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Parallel trends exist in music, fashion, movies and art, where the lowbrow and highbrow coexist.
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"Alan is highbrow/lowbrow, and so am I," said Nardicio in an interview with Out.
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Have you ever wondered if celebs watch the same prestige (or lowbrow) television that you do?
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As this list shows, the influence travels from the highbrow to the middlebrow to the lowbrow.
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Highbrow and lowbrow have cohabitated before, of course, but rarely with this ease or this empathy.
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HIGHBROW, LOWBROW, BRILLIANT, DESPICABLE: 50 YEARS OF NEW YORK By the Editors of New York Magazine.
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My wife and I always talk about the importance of the balance of high and lowbrow.
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This constant, lowbrow attack on the courts is not an insignificant thing and not without consequence.
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" Members of the waitstaff smoked cigarettes by the awning next door, under graffiti that read "Lowbrow.
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Unsympathetic reviewers saw "Car Wash" as a lowbrow imitation of "American Graffiti" (1973) or "Nashville" (1975).
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Watch below, and surprise yourself with how lowbrow you actually are: You can follow Lauren on Twitter.
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More high brow and more complex and higher level and also more democratized and lowbrow and dumb.
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Bacon fat mixes beautifully with champagne vinegar, and provides the ultimate highbrow/lowbrow party in your mouth.
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It's lowbrow stuff, for sure, but looking back, what's remarkable is how fully Reeves buys into the silliness.
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Very Bad Things is a manic, lowbrow comedy, but bad-choice films come from all sectors of cinema.
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Slumped in a dirty tank top in the lowbrow corner is a double-decker burger called the Classic.
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Stephen Colbert couldn't pass up the opportunity to make a few lowbrow puns based on the reported crimes.
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"This is a combination of highbrow and lowbrow," said Mr. Schrager, 72, in his gravelly, Jimmy Durante voice.
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"The Good Place" is one of the brightest spots on TV right now, nimbly both highbrow and lowbrow.
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Suggesting to the world that veterans, as a whole, enjoy extremely dark, lowbrow humor like this isn't helping.
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That desperation has turned what were once innocent gags into lowbrow exploitation for thirsty YouTubers itching to go viral.
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While these lowbrow tactics sometimes make me want to leave politics altogether, I don't think that's the answer either.
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" The trashcan portion of that insult plays at the bigger tension here: Brandi believes Kameron views her as "lowbrow.
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Although tattoos have crossed over into the mainstream, they are still perceived mainly as a lowbrow, pop-cultural phenomenon.
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Garcia is a trailblazer in the lowbrow/pop surrealism movement first spawned by custom-car culture in Los Angeles.
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Often working in tension with the predominant cinematic canon, she usually preferred the lowbrow over glamorous Hollywood prestige films.
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Spoke represents a cadre of pop-surrealists, lowbrow painters, and art Instagram behemoths like Joan Cornella and Tracie Ching.
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She mixes highbrow and lowbrow aesthetics — a major influence is John Waters, who similarly indulges in camp and kitsch.
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The event description and the page's discussion posts are plastered with shitposting — shorthand for the sharing of especially lowbrow memes.
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Something about lowbrow and highbrow at the same time is my favorite comedy, and anything about bodily functions is universal.
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Depending on your interests and inclinations, that trio of words can evoke myriad things — highbrow, lowbrow, eyeshadow blues, baby blues….
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This approach of mixing highbrow and lowbrow ingredients comes from growing up in a family with a lot of kids.
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"Wrecked," the latest effort by TBS to secure a lowbrow-humor beachhead, gives us castaways stranded after a plane crash.
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Faulkner rarely discussed his love of mysteries, perhaps considering them lowbrow, but seemed to understand their importance to his writing.
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Another element to a puzzle's success in my book is the skillfulness of the high- and lowbrow mix of references.
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Adam Sandler became America's most reliable comic star without ever leaving his comfort zone, largely made up of lowbrow comedies.
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I think of the little lowbrow angel pin attached to the purple bra: what is the affiliation being marked here?
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At one time or other these women's craft was either considered lowbrow or was measured against the work of male contemporaries.
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Compared to the lowbrow Chevy Mylink system, CUE had a lot of extraneous content, which ended up being its biggest liability.
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Faulkner rarely discussed his love of mysteries, perhaps considering them lowbrow, but he seemed to understand their importance to his writing.
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What has been most surprising — at least to those of us who still associate Bagge with the lowbrow humor of Hate!
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"We're highbrow and lowbrow, fiercely opinionated, and not afraid to real-talk each other about everything," they say on their website.
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A neophyte politician — a man famous for lowbrow TV antics who has never held political office — is vying to become president.
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But the lofty rhetoric of some podcasts makes the sometimes lowbrow nature of the ads feel at odds with the show.
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It's not that I wasn't aware of the difference between "highbrow" and "lowbrow" writing — after all, I did have literature teachers.
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For two years, Desus Nice and the Kid Mero's irreverent Viceland show set a high bar for lowbrow late-night television.
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What has mostly determined its literary and cultural legacy has been the book's lowbrow, "trashy" reputation—bad writing, glossy cover, scandalous content.
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He relishes showing up the haters who think he's too gauche and lowbrow, or that he's more a celebrity than a politician.
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Like any festival, especially the modern Biennale, the works in The Present in Drag run the gamut between high- and lowbrow art.
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The influence of lowbrow underground cartoonists can be found in furry art's inherently countercultural focus as well as its occasionally bawdy humor.
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But the possibility of bribery and blackmail here makes it impossible to fully separate out highbrow and lowbrow aspects of the scandal.
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Most of this lowbrow chuck can be purchased at the Galeries Lafayette store and some of the "art" products are available online.
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There's also a set of clinking Champagne glasses, in case the clinking beer stein emoji always struck you as a little lowbrow.
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"I have a mashup style of hip hop, punk, and lowbrow grunge, and the neon colors help support that aesthetic," Gloombones says.
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"I can't accurately decide whether something is good or bad, highbrow or lowbrow," Mr. Zhang told a Chinese business magazine in 63.
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Across culture, this decade has been marked with poptimism and the end of a staunch definition of what is highbrow or lowbrow.
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Many of the selections were popular when they were written, but were later overlooked by scholarship as lowbrow, and thus left untranslated.
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" His "unapologetic enjoyment of lowbrow literature," his daughter said, helped bring students flocking to his course "Studies in Modern Literature: Popular Fiction.
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Jeremy Scott's inspirations are often delightfully lowbrow, but his Moschino show this season was a jaunt into the lofty world of art.
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One of the best lessons I ever received in my intellectual development was the falseness of the idea of highbrow or lowbrow culture.
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Maybe for his next photography project, Cole will go for something a bit more lowbrow and gather his family for a new photo.
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Or you can go lowbrow, with a life-sized cardboard cutout of the couple, so they can watch over you while you sleep.
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At a time when the Japanese entertainment industry viewed anime as lowbrow and pandering, Evangelion challenged the medium's boundaries and its audiences' expectations.
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It boasts just the right mix of designer brands and lowbrow, disorganized thrill-of-the-hunt elements to create the ideal shopping experience.
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Ramona—yes, named after Beverly Cleary's indomitable heroine—is kind of the Hegelian synthesis of lowbrow day-drinking hooch and highbrow cocktail culture.
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Kovacs (21943-19813) was both a hilarious lowbrow comic and an artist who intuited and knowingly exploited the nature of his chosen medium.
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That's what many people think, that we are the lowbrow ditch diggers of the writing profession, the punch lines of jokes and films.
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Mr. Kelly's ease moving between high- and lowbrow creative worlds has given him a certain respect for all the roles he is given.
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The book's focus was on the aesthetic virtues of the Las Vegas Strip, the kind of lowbrow environment that most academic architects derided.
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JOHN WATERS: INDECENT EXPOSURE This brilliantly lowbrow cinematic provocateur returns to the city that spawned him for a major retrospective. Oct. 1-Jan.
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Proper names actually worked to get things going for me today, which I always prefer to starting out feeling old, lowbrow or both.
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Ric Ocasek was a versatile singer, songwriter, guitarist, keyboardist and producer with a vast array of interests, from high art to lowbrow trash.
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As a playwright, however, he has long been celebrated for his effusive, often self-consciously literary way with language both highbrow and lowbrow.
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Culled from the most perverse corners of the male mind, the movie is a raunchy, phallic overload, full of lowbrow wordplay and general filth.
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Those who buy Vetements are the gender-fluid urban youth who don't differentiate between "men's" fashion and "women's" fashion, much less highbrow and lowbrow.
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There is high cultural commentary, and there is lowbrow, nearly pedantic commentary on the random moments of silliness and stupidity that make up life.
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These lowbrow versions can also be used for other types of identity theft, like entry at a sporting event, business, government office or school.
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Many alt-rock bands all along the highbrow/lowbrow spectrum were toying with electronic touches in 1997; hell, Bush put out a remix album.
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A 1982 book by Mr. Williams, "The Lowbrow Art of Robert Williams," would give the genre its most common name; Pop Surrealism is another.
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I have formal ones and lowbrow ones, ones that make me laugh, but they all protect my table, and that's why I love them.
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"ROKÉ Cupid" and its companions invest lowbrow media — makeup tutorials, videos of shopping purchases, blurry copies of rom-coms — with the pomp of ritual.
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Chuck Barris created "The Gong Show," a lowbrow game show in the 643s that became a cultural sensation in the U.S. He was 87.
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These days, many Broadway fans view Lloyd Webber's latter works — usually regarded as everything after his collaboration with Rice — as lowbrow, soapy, and forgettable.
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Nothing about the movie is subtle, but it's one of those good-bad ideas that may come as delight to stoners and lowbrow culture buffs.
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Trump's successful pitch was that he is a different kind of Republican, whose lowbrow shtick indicated a real desire to sideline the interests of wealthy.
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There were lowbrow plastic-wrapped renditions in 7-Elevens and gorgeous packages of it presented like jewelry by babydoll-lashed, white-gloved attendants in Ginza.
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And STS and TNT, which wisely refrain from news content altogether and thus elude Kremlin control, successfully mix lowbrow comedies with increasingly ambitious original dramas.
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The addition of lowbrow comic book explosions around the highbrow Renaissance figure heightens her eminence, like the gold surrounding biblical mosaics in the Hagia Sophia.
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Instead, Barnes' work is equal parts arts and crafts, both highbrow and lowbrow, yet somehow none of the above—instead occupying the inexplicable spaces genres.
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With examples like this in mind, people regularly write off hick-hop as a lowbrow gimmick that conflates two genres that shouldn't share studio time.
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" According to the artists, the series serves an investigation of how we consider good or bad taste, a reflection of what is acknowledged as "lowbrow.
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Mr. Buffett's denatured country-calypso ditties and horndog smarm seem awfully lowbrow, even in a Broadway environment debased for decades by singing cats and candlesticks.
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That's why, to some Chinese people of my generation, the new crackdown on entertainment is alarming, even if the targets are sometimes lowbrow or coarse.
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In media coverage, "Now on My Way" has been portrayed as a gaudy curiosity, but it's better understood as a lowbrow show with good intentions.
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Trending up: Snap might pay publishers for news content, bringing high-quality content to an app whose news offerings have largely been lowbrow and shallow.
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In response, King grinned that he had, instead, read every novel Dean Koontz had ever written — Dean Koontz being a notoriously lowbrow writer of thrillers.
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People clearly aren't sure what to make of its weird blend of straight-faced Next Generation-era Trek pastiche and MacFarlane's particularly lowbrow brand of humor.
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This gleefully lowbrow evocation of a lost New York is so laden with obscenities and politically incorrect language that it's hard to quote a meaningful line.
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The show has always had a knack for tapping into lowbrow humor — who could forget season 1's elaborate dick joke that spurned a programming revelation?
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But it's always been a bit different on reality TV. Long seen as lowbrow, reality TV is rarely cited outside academia as a pioneer in representation.
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Just because the city has long ago cornered the fine art of lowbrow drinking doesn't mean that it can't flirt with upscale cocktail bars as well.
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The new movie acknowledges generational turnover by giving Bridget a cold but kooky new boss (Kate O'Flynn) who spouts enigmatic gobbledygook in an affectedly lowbrow accent.
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Lowbrow references, subversions of classic American culture and challenges to societal taboos are all present in his work, alongside a focus on race, gender and power.
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"Roger Stone certainly rubs a lot of people the wrong way, particularly those on the receiving end of his wee hour lowbrow character attacks," Credico wrote.
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Released now, during a time when comics have been elevated to literature, the book illustrates the medium's defiantly lowbrow origins — which have lent it its potency.
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Logan Paul, famous for his lowbrow antics, posted a video at the end of 22017 of a dead body he found in a "suicide forest" in Japan.
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Censors are also paying more attention to content they regard as "lowbrow": material deemed licentious, sexist or likely to encourage what the party regards as immoral behaviour.
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In a girlie, lowbrow sort of way, I was preparing for life as a photographer — I was learning about imagery and portraiture and art and self-expression.
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The goal was to subvert lowbrow doublespeak with clever turns of phrase that made fun of the product being sold or revealed the truth behind the slogan.
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George Stade, a highbrow literary scholar who studied lowbrow fiction and who wrote the provocative 21945 satirical crime novel "Confessions of a Lady-Killer," died on Feb.
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Some may laugh at the idea that lowbrow Roseanne is modeling, at least in part, the humane qualities commended by the British statesman and philosopher Edmund Burke.
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By encountering this kind of deeply misogynistic violence over and over again — be it through lowbrow or highbrow exploitation — women are frequently silenced, worn down, and exhausted.
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But the beauty of sober curiosity, supporters say, is it can be as highbrow or lowbrow as you may want it to be — and as health-oriented.
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In their heyday, when some city streets might have boasted half a dozen, they were places to relax, do business, gossip and exchange ideas, both lowbrow and highfalutin.
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If Comedy Central's "Drunk History" is the lowbrow side of this subgenre, "Join or Die With Craig Ferguson," which begins Thursday on the History channel, aims slightly higher.
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But it's difficult to reconcile a face so associated to lowbrow comedic shtick with the heartfelt young lawyer who has doubtlessly experienced his own fair share of discrimination.
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It is very disappointing that Buzzfeed would publish such an obvious and lowbrow attempt to interfere with Breitbart News and our audience of more than 20 million monthly.
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It's a weird week when POTUS doesn't have some lowbrow clap back for a woman he perceives to have threatened his machismo: That's just America in 2017. Sad!
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Perhaps Mr. Taylor's most high-profile role was as the host of another of Mr. Barris's lowbrow productions, "The $19313 Beauty Show," which ran from 1978 to 1980.
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After more than 2300 years of chronicling the highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant and despicable characters of the city whose name it took, New York Magazine has a new owner.
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Critics complained about its crassness and cruelty, but Mr. Barris, like purveyors of burlesque and circus sideshows in earlier generations, knew there was a large audience for lowbrow.
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This year she did incredible work on our Instagram, which I think is a pretty good mix of the high-and-lowbrow stuff that makes Motherboard what it is.
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Milk chocolate is the one who gave you a good-but-lowbrow night out, while dour and reserved dark chocolate droned on about its boring antioxidants and healthy flavonoids.
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Now that almost any citizen of the internet can conjure a funny photoshop or GIF with ease, the video game mod has become a high-bar of lowbrow goofs.
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It's too scary for children, too earnest for teenagers, too tame for horror fans, too lowbrow for cineastes who await the artistic triumphs of a post-Weinstein Uma Thurman.
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Anyway, it was a struggle to find an a/v accessory to today's column that wasn't too lowbrow; here is a pair of ducklings who patterned after a dog.
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The story that drew the discouraging New Yorker rejection back in 19933, "My Masterpieces," did eventually see the light of print, in 2010, when The Lowbrow Reader published it.
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"I think Miyazaki's work cuts across more boundaries and touches a wider swath of the population than most anime does," says Adam Caldwell, a lowbrow pop surrealist oil painter.
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But the New School's drama program, like those at a number of schools, has been making more and more space for a medium once considered too lowbrow for M.F.A. holders.
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And could *MST3K'*s mix of high- and lowbrow know-how, not to mention its gentle touch, still work in an era when everything is subject to easy, exhausting insta-commentary?
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I especially love how, in order to win the game, you cannot just be any nerd, but a nerd who also pays attention to the more lowbrow parts of our culture.
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Is Carrie's willingness to churn out lowbrow lounge-around-in-your-sweatsuit Netflix fodder supposed to be understood as socioeconomically inevitable, and therefore forgivable, given its rewards in fame and residuals?
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Yes, there are still plenty of closeted teenagers and plenty of parents as clueless as the two O'Neals, but in 2016 that no longer seems like an occasion for lowbrow laughs.
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Narrated by a comfortable yet colorless Ralph Macchio as a writer looking back on his childhood, this is a gleefully lowbrow, relentlessly coarse evocation of a lost New York (8383:35).
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Narrated by a comfortable yet colorless Ralph Macchio as a writer looking back on his childhood, this is a gleefully lowbrow, relentlessly coarse evocation of a lost New York (1:35).
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Joachim B. Olsen, a former Olympic shot-putter and current member of the Danish Parliament, paid $450 to have his face and a lowbrow slogan plastered across Pornhub, a Canadian website.
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It was grown in a lush lake on Europa to appeal to me and others like me, who love when a TV show mixes a highbrow love story with lowbrow nonsense.
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" In his letter to Jackson, Credico wrote, "Roger Stone certainly rubs a lot of people the wrong way, particularly those on the receiving end of his wee hour lowbrow character attacks.
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Prog (progressive) rock is ambitious, difficult, long-form, often instrumental music that freely mixes high and lowbrow elements and is frequently created by musicians with long hair, tall boots and monster chops.
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Some may (and have, in the comments section) accuse a sushi master of bastardizing his craft by engaging in such a lowbrow exploration of sushi ingredients, but Terada doesn't seem to care.
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Shag is one of the most successful figures to arise from L.A.'s "lowbrow" movement, which draws inspiration from custom cars, punk music, and other facets from the fringes of pop culture.
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But his highbrow, lowbrow image — of the jet-setting mogul who takes buckets of fried chicken onto his private plane with the gold-plated seatbelt buckles — is also a carefully crafted one.
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For the moment, Netflix' approach has been to make something for everyone: a platform where you can watch a lowbrow stoner comedy from Chuck Lorre and an unfinished masterpiece by Orson Welles.
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In this rendition of the story, Barnum is a dreamer and a visionary, a family man whose wealthy, high-class in-laws scoff at his lowbrow, vulgar aspirations to entertain the masses.
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Watch for a hallucinatory cameo by Simone de Beauvoir highbrow-bickering with Gloria Steinem (nope, not the real one), and a Chorus of Dumb Bunnies, spewing lowbrow imperatives about snaring a man.
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"We wanted to make sure that we were balancing fine art with other examples of lowbrow and mass-produced imagery that actually had a great impact on the American public," she said.
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It ultimately led to Jackson's lowbrow attempts to persuade Anthony to waive the clause and alienated Kristaps Porzingis to the point where Jackson considered trading the team's most precious asset as well.
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The prevailing style might be called populist highbrow or perhaps raised lowbrow (you might want to bone up on Kylie Minogue songs), except that "Prudencia Hart" sends up and explodes such categories.
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What separates Potrykus from Hess is the unease lingering under the lowbrow sensibility; beneath the boredom and the fart jokes there's an unavoidable and apocalyptic sense of anxiety about our coming doom.
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There is nothing more illustrative than New York magazine's Approval Matrix, a visual survey of timely works, people, and pop cultural products plotted on a scale from Despicable to Brilliant, Highbrow to Lowbrow.
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Organized by Andrew Hosner of Culver City's Thinkspace Projects, Beyond Eden takes inspiration from the LA Art Show's Littletopia — conceived by the late Greg Escalante, one of the founders of lowbrow bible Juxtapoz.
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With domestic farmed caviar, spooned between two thin pieces of white toast, with boiled egg and crème fraîche and chopped scallions in there, too, for an affordable, but luscious and haute, lowbrow sandwich.
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The students are incredible there, and with accountability, then they found that roasting strangers is a really, really lowbrow way to get at humor and you can do it in super clever ways.
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Sure, I would love to take my usual stance as Trash Lover, defending all levels of lowbrow camp, but as deep as I soul search, there's no way I can stand by Valentine's Day.
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" Reviews for Cult of Chucky have been even more positive than they were for Curse of Chucky: The Hollywood Reporter called the film "part self-spoofing slasher, part lowbrow bloodbath and all guilty pleasure.
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He who did not believe in the distinction Philip Rahv made between what he called paleface and redskin — highbrow and lowbrow, patrician and plebeian — was saying what his freedoms as a black writer were.
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Dialog alternates between lowbrow humor and platitudes about the perils of helicopter parenting, with intercuts of Kunis hugging her deeply awkward kids, looking more like their beautiful babysitter than a woman who birthed them.
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He spends most of the episode trying to reconcile those feelings, veering from the potential "humiliation" of returning to the lowbrow sitcom to his hope that he can make something positive out of it.
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"I just think it's cool to hear 'Happy Gilmore' mentioned at Cannes," Stiller said after the lowbrow 1996 golfing comedy in which he co-starred with Sandler was mentioned at the festival news conference.
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Before creating their new show, Mostly 24 Millennials, for Cartoon Network's late-night art-comedy block, both Beckles and Andre began their careers with thoughtful stunt comedy and a love for lowbrow vintage television.
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Traditional circuses, with their succession of unrelated, upbeat acts, were considered lowbrow entertainment, but since the 1980s, companies like Cirque du Soleil and Cirque Eloize have been combining big-top spectacle with modern dramaturgy.
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But, with an accordion and a delightful taste of the lowbrow, Mr. Adams also suggests Weill and Brecht's "Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny," a similar opera about money, rowdiness and savagery.
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Rendered in flamboyantly artificial, lowbrow materials such as Day-Glo acrylics and a stuccoish compound called Roll-a-Tex, his paintings resemble LSD-fueled abstractions, or possibly cartoonishly bright, invitingly tactile corporate flow charts.
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A 1949 spread in Life magazine lay out "Everyday Tastes from High Brow to Low Brow are Classified in this Chart," including ballet (highbrow), theater (upper-middlebrow), front-yard sculpture (lower middlebrow), and coleslaw (lowbrow).
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We're sure that little Prince George and Princess Charlotte are going to get a real kick out of their dear old dad one of these days, when they're old enough to appreciate lowbrow schoolboy humor.
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Yet some distinctive Bong touches emerge, like the oafish snack-bar clerk (Song) who becomes his unlikely hero, the sincere emotion of a family in crisis and the coexistence of lowbrow yuks and satirical wit.
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The new Off Broadway show "Jack and the Beanstalk," presented at the Abrons Arts Center, may help rectify the situation regarding panto, a vaudeville-derived, proudly lowbrow genre that happily endorses an anything-goes approach.
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"We're highbrow and lowbrow, fiercely opinionated, and not afraid to real-talk each other about everything from menstrual cycles and body shaming to the Cheeto in Chief and workplace drama with devastating wit," the hosts explain.
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The Teutuls are, in this sense, the perfect Trump-era Republicans — a couple of lowbrow regular guys who happen to be incredibly rich business owners who'd probably appreciate a big tax cut for pass-through income.
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You could just put some string quartet music in there for the highbrow, and whatever else for the lowbrow and call it a day, but I just felt like I could do something more with this.
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It has been replaced and superseded, as the writers suggest, by sometimes exemplary specialized courses in social history, ethnic and race studies, and gender and identity studies, as well as by lowbrow and middlebrow culture studies.
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Carrying out those pizza boxes like they are overpriced bottles of liquor destroys the lines between highbrow and lowbrow, turning that splashy, sparkler-enhanced show of conspicuous consumption that plagues every VIP club into a joke.
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Last month, Credico said in a letter to the judge that Stone does not deserve to go to prison despite having engaged in "lowbrow character attacks," spun "conspiracy tales" and threatened to steal the comedian's dog.
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Exquisitely detailed animation style supports a story layered with irony and dark comedy, from lowbrow jokes about bodily functions to multiple reversals in what the audience knows about both our hero and the treasure he seeks.
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I do from a lot of people but you have to understand that before very recently, I thought it was a very lowbrow, low vibrational thing to let people get to know you on the internet.
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Pantsuit goals This Transparent star and trans advocate is far too good for The Bachelorette or anything on network television, but in the event she feels like dipping her toe into our disgusting lowbrow universe, we're here.
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"During the proto-furry period, there was an art movement recognized by art historians as the lowbrow/pop surrealism movement," said Octavia Wolfe, a furry and art historian who says she used to design logos for Disney.
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Merging the decidedly lowbrow with the gaudiness of pure gold, the cleverly-named America is what he calls "1% art for the 99%," and it reaches beyond the simple breaking of art's cardinal "Look, Don't Touch" rule.
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As capitalism continues to discriminatively rank the globe by gender, class, ability, and identity, these scatological artworks invert the highbrow/lowbrow polarities and reorganize the boundaries around what, how, and by whom art is constituted and consumed.
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Look, here's the thing—you can make this stupid-easy recipe as highbrow or as lowbrow as you want it to be, but either way, it's still gonna be better than frozen breakfast scrambles of indeterminate origins.
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Now, the scene feels more cohesive and supportive—you can go to Lowbrow or Monarch on a Monday and find yourself shoulder to shoulder with locals, watching a band from here, Juarez or Las Cruces, New Mexico.
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Its earnest tone seemed all the more surprising given the lowbrow comic credits of the creators: Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg wrote the "Harold & Kumar" films, while Josh Heald penned "Hot Tub Time Machine" and its sequel.
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It is Discovery's most ambitious and expensive project since Rich Ross took over as president of the channel two and a half years ago, vowing to re-energize its lineup of middlebrow and sometimes lowbrow reality fare.
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But, it's not Louis' latest lowbrow comedy routine attacking victims of the Parkland massacre that has Cameron upset ... the student activist is taking issue with Louis appealing to crowds who find jokes about transgender people and school shootings funny.
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After attending Otis Parsons (now just Otis) in LA, Garcia's career has been steady with a stream of exhibitions, illustrations, and books, all of which chronicle her own creative development as well as the evolution of the lowbrow scene.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads There's a lot to be said about art writing: much of it, in its current mainstream iteration oscillates between faux-lowbrow listicles and convoluted connoisseurship, both fail to provide enough information to readers.
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The dialogue is simultaneously laugh-out-loud funny and densely philosophical, especially when the communist screenwriters appear, and it's mixed with lowbrow physical comedy (Whitlock's persistent inability to sit down due to a prop sword, Doyle's impossibly acrobatic horse-riding stunts).
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There is a kinship among these works because they were created by women whose craft, at one time or another, was either considered lowbrow or was measured against the work of male contemporaries and found to be derivative and unoriginal.
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But hey, if any liberals are still determined to die on the hill of defending the Walmart third-party marketplace against the Keurig-smashing crowd, they're gonna have to get a little more lowbrow and start buying more #covfefe shirts.
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However it's labeled, her oeuvre clearly has shades of lowbrow mixed with a hefty dose of 21st century allegory, reminiscent of the work of Alex Gross, for whom Tsemet worked as an intern after moving to Los Angeles two years ago.
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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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Unlike the three established networks, which vied for the same centrist viewers, his creation would follow the unapologetically lowbrow model of the tabloids that he published in Australia and England, and appeal to a narrow audience that would be entirely his.
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Denmark: Joachim Olsen, a former Olympic shot-putter and current member of the Danish Parliament, tried to reach voters "where they are," he said — by paying $450 to have his face and a lowbrow slogan plastered across Pornhub, a Canadian website.
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It was a tension between the refined and the lowbrow, the processed and the natural, "the civilized and the wild," she wrote in "American Food Writing: An Anthology With Classic Recipes" (19953), which analyzed 21995 years of American culinary history.
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The film is a comic blend of highbrow and lowbrow culture, meant to seem surreal because the decorous formality of a 19th-century comedy of manners seems so at odds with the joyously vulgar, Tarantino-friendly bloodbaths of a cheap slasher movie.
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On Friday Ms. Vega turns up in a much more lowbrow offering, and in this one her character's parents do something far worse than anything the Florricks ever did: They leave her home alone when there's a homicidal maniac on the loose.
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Alongside the exclusive toy releases, live artist battles, and a VR tunnel featuring animation from the wildly popular film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, this year's Con will feature a curated section of lowbrow, Pop-Surrealist, and outsider art titled Beyond Eden.
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Others picked up on this as well, from Florida Georgia Line to Sam Hunt — from the lowbrow, in other words, to the ostensibly cosmopolitan — and this kind of stylistic flexibility has become one of the dominant narratives of pop-country in recent years.
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If Netflix and Hulu are boring you with crass, lowbrow content, if you gravitate to arthouse and indie movies, if you're less into Song of Ice and Fire and more into India Song, it might be worth checking out your local library.
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And while instant ramen is generally considered unhealthy, lowbrow, and overly processed by people on the other side of prison walls, these little packets of deep-fried noodles have become big deal in jail and, in some cases, eclipsed the ultimate prison currency—cigarettes.
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Very Intelligent Ecommerce Inc, the company behind the Autoblow, could easily argue that they're in line with Kickstarter's maker focused philosophy, but their lowbrow marketing strategies—including a penchant for "beauty contests" for vulvas, scrotums, and buttholes—don't quite align with Kickstarter's family-friendly vibe.
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No joke, Roger Stone engaged in "lowbrow character attacks," spun "conspiracy tales" and threatened to kill a friend's dog, but he does not deserve to go to prison — according to the comedian whose testimony led to the Republican operative's conviction on federal criminal charges.
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For travellers who want to get away from the many annoyances of flying—from the screaming child in the next row, the loud conversation across the aisle, the seatback movie selection that seems to consist entirely of lowbrow sequels—SkyLights and similar technology could be a godsend.
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For those unfamiliar, Shaw is a Michigan-bred, 64-year-old contemporary artist who, alongside Mike Kelley, became known as one of the leading lights of the "lowbrow art" movement, which took inspiration from underground comics and other bits and bobs of both mainstream and fringe culture.
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"This show was a cultural milestone and laid the foundation for the Lowbrow Art movement of the '90s and beyond," said Larry Reid, who helped Mr. Escalante bring a touring version of the exhibition to Seattle, where Mr. Reid is curator of the Fantagraphics Bookstore and Gallery.
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When Warhol showed up for the gallbladder operation that ended up killing him, he brought along Kitty Kelley's 600-page biography of Frank Sinatra as his latest lowbrow read; he also carried a new translation of the diaries of Jean Cocteau, a longtime highbrow hero of his.
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With a couple of notably lowbrow exceptions (looking at you, IOU), the tone of the clues and the quality of the entries was less trendy than we've seen of late, the cultural references (VERE, SOREN, LE CID) a bit more academic, and the jokes a bit upper crustier.
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"Gil was accustomed to the upper echelon of publishing — The New Yorker and whatnot — and here he was, publishing his lost masterpiece in some idiot's comedy zine," Jay Ruttenberg, editor of The Lowbrow Reader, who joined with Mr. Jennings in getting Mr. Rogin's novels republished, said in an email.
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Run through Saunders' semi-sci-fi, glitchy highbrow/lowbrow voice, he tells stories about people who buy young girls for decoration, a troubled veteran, and criminals forced to take experimental drugs that read distant but familiar, like one piece of everyday life has been pushed to its logical conclusion.
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It also seems to suggest that there is something icky and lowbrow about fiction being relatable: that it should be held to such a higher standard, talked about as "text" in its own special ways, and kept preciously removed in its distinct sphere of extra-special all-made-up-ness.
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With Crime Mob, we've talked about this group in a certain way that they've been connected to violence and lowbrow art but I think a song that has this kind of impact definitely deserves to be elevated in a way that a lot of black art is being elevated right now.
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But it also just perpetuated the same stereotypes as the most lowbrow mom flicks — chiefly that maternal instinct can be reduced to a series of tasks and that our success as mothers can be measured by our ability to nail them every single day and look hot at the same time.
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It was salacious and highbrow, literary and lowbrow, silly, serious, a high practitioner of the parenthetical wit, bracingly and searingly dedicated to cutthroat critique, a place where nothing was sacred but the story, and to that end, a proponent of the truth, whether you liked what it had to say or not.
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Roseanne confesses to Darlene that she toiled her whole life to give her kids a better chance than she had, but it has come with the price of her personal jealousy and Darlene's increasing classism, as the girl can't stop sniping about the worn state of the house or her parents' lowbrow tastes.
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Mr. Hamilton, 28, manages a network of Facebook pages and makes viral videos for his "Hammy T.V." channel — mostly lowbrow fare with titles like "Shocking Pit Bull Social Experiment" and "World's Hottest Pepper on Girlfriend's Thong" — that have earned him a level of popularity typically associated with Kardashians and BuzzFeed food clips.
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With a screenplay by Nicholas Stoller, who directed "Neighbors" and "Forgetting Sarah Marshall," and voice cast loaded with talent like Kevin Hart, Jordan Peele, Ed Helms, Thomas Middleditch and Kristen Schaal, the film gets plenty of lowbrow laughs from the premise of two wiseacres who hypnotize their principal into believing he's a superhero.
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Conversations in my sleep-deprived, media-saturated household are already sounding like lowbrow Joycean stream of thought involving the rules of curling, incomprehensible snowboarding exclamations, kitchen fires and emotional remembrances of Oksana Baiul and Surya Bonaly (I leave it to you in the comments if you have any favorites of your own).
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The book (and the 2002 film based on it, directed by George Clooney) were widely dismissed by disbelievers who said the creator of some of television's most lowbrow game shows had allowed his imagination to run wild when he claimed to have spent his spare time traveling the world, quietly rubbing out enemies of the United States.
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I'm kind of embarrassed to tell you which entry was my way into this puzzle, but I'm going to anyway, just so you don't think that I automatically "know" these things: My first correct answer was SETH Green at 13A from the "Austin Powers" movies, because I am tragically lowbrow and marinate myself in pop culture.
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In his 30s and several years out of college, where he had studied art and been bored by much of it, Greg Escalante saw a skateboarding magazine and was so bowled over by the artwork on the cover that he spent the rest of his life championing the genre it represented — what came to be known as Lowbrow Art.
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Waithe may have broken through with her work on Master of None, but she got her start working under some of the most prolific black women writers and producers of the 2000s, writer-directors like Gina Prince-Bythewood (Love and Basketball) and Mara Brock Akil (Girlfriends), whose work was often dismissed as niche (black) and lowbrow (about women).
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The anthology "Highbrow, Lowbrow, Brilliant, Despicable: 20103 Years of New York" (Simon & Schuster) encapsulates those five convulsive decades in lavish illustrations, vivid oral histories and evocative recreations by, among others, Tom Wolfe, Jimmy Breslin, Nora Ephron, Nicholas Pileggi, Julie Baumgold and Gael Greene from the magazine's more than 2,300 issues edited, most prominently, by Clay Felker, Ed Kosner and Adam Moss.
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Little Boots 2016 Tour Dates: October 5 - U Street Music Hall - Washington, DC October 6 - Middle East Upstairs - Cambridge,MA October 7 - The Westcott Theatre - Syracuse, NY October 8 - The Great Northern - Mighty, SF October 14 - Lowbrow Palace - El Paso, TX October 20 - House of Yes - New York, NY October 22 - Fox Cabaret - Vancouver October 23 - Kremwork - Seattle, SE October 29 - Virgin Hotel - Chicago, IL
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Auto-Didactic: The Juxtapoz School at the Petersen Automotive Museum explores the influence of this groundbreaking magazine, showcasing underground favorites like Ed "Big Daddy" Roth and Von Dutch, alongside artists that bridge the gap between lowbrow and high art, like Kenny Scharf, Anthony Ausgang, and Sandow Birk, proving that the barriers between the street and the white cube are more porous than they may at first seem.
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Once imported to America, however, the exciting new technology instead showcased a trashy Technicolor assembly-line: videos of busty lounge singers and B-list bands doing cover songs usually featuring jiggling bikini-clad women with ludicrous choreography straight out of The Benny Hill Show, the long-running British TV program that consisted mainly of lowbrow slapstick, truly lame double entendres, and almost-naked women being chased around by pervy old men.
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Ever since the Academy snubbed 2008's The Dark Knight — the movie earned eight nominations, including Best Supporting Actor, but Christopher Nolan wasn't nominated for Best Director, and the movie was not nominated for Best Picture — there's been a question of whether the organization would ever recognize a superhero movie in the Best Picture category, after years of perhaps considering them to be too lowbrow for the honor.
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But unlike AT&T (which bought DirecTV and is in the process of buying Time Warner) or Comcast (which bought NBCUniversal and invested in companies like BuzzFeed and our own Vox Media), Verizon's plan is far more lowbrow: it's going to churn out as much cheap content as it can from AOL and Yahoo and tell advertisers it can do a better job of delivering eyeballs because it has better ad-tracking capabilities than Google and Facebook.
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And Hobie (basically Jesus), who runs an antiques shop at which Theo finds refuge, is so innocent to the ways of the world that he is slowly bankrupting himself through his devotion to beauty and refusal to sell his furniture to the undeserving, and doesn't even own a TV. Bad: Mr. Barbour, the posh Upper East Side dad with whom Theo briefly lives who likes sailing and Maxfield Parrish (middlebrow); Theo's own dad, who lives in tacky suburban Las Vegas and used to act on TV (lowbrow).
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads A Gibson girl with a perfectly coiffed Vidal Sassoon bob wearing a ballgown made of slabs of meat and sausage links; a wide-eyed, silver-haired, childlike waif half submerged in a body of water containing amoebas, protozoa, body parts, and a foetus; Amanda Seyfried as a lady with ermine (in this case, it's a dead cat) and Katy Perry posing like Titian's Venus in a "Garden of Earthly Delights" settings — these are just a few examples of the works of pop-surrealist painter Mark Ryden, who, in his 215-year career, brought the lowbrow art movement out of the underground circuit of Southern California and into the mainstream.
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Betty Who Tour Dates: THU 4/20 Concord Music Hall Chicago, IL SAT 4/22 Triple Rock Social Club Minneapolis, MN--SOLD OUT SUN 4/23 Bluebird Theater Denver, CO MON 4/24 Urban Lounge Salt Lake City, UT WED 33/26 Neumos Seattle, WA THU 4/27 Imperial Vancouver, BC FRI 4/28 Wonder Ballroom Portland, OR SUN 4/30 Harlows Sacramento, CA TUE 5/2 The Fonda Theater Los Angeles, CA Tour dates w/ support from Geographer THU 93/10 Soho Music Club Santa Barbara, CA FRI 8/11 The Observatory: North Park San Diego, CA MON 28/228 Crescent Ballroom Phoenix, AZ TUE 29/21 Lowbrow Palace El Paso, TX THU 29/23 Trees Dallas, TX FRI 43/24 Vulcan Gas Company Austin, TX SAT 29/26 White Oak Music Hal Houston, TX MON 8/21 Republic New Orleans New Orleans, LA TUE 8/22 Saturn Birmingham, AL WED 8/23 Terminal West Atlanta, GA FRI 93/25 Exit/In Nashville, TN SUN 8/27 Majestic Theatre Madison, WI MON 8/28 The Hi-Fi Indianapolis, IN FRI 9/1 Beachland Ballroom Cleveland, OH SUN 9/3 The Mod Club Toronto, ON MON 9/4 La Sala Rossa Montreal, QC WED 9/6 Brooklyn Steel Brooklyn, NY Follow Ilana Kaplan on Twitter.
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