Word: highbrow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mainstream America. But it may explain why he doesn't feel compelled to absorb all the information in the briefing books assembled for him by his own stable of heavily credentialed experts. Besides, in Austin, at the statehouse and in campaign headquarters on Congress Avenue, his distaste for the highbrow is considered a virtue. In meetings with his speechwriter and press staff, Bush reviews the words that will go out under his name with a keen eye for the pompous and overwrought. When he spots a sentence that wouldn't make sense to the average layman, Bush peers over...
Smith calls the film "a bizarre mix of lowbrow jokes and highbrow concepts and then vice versa." Ain't it, though? He mixes poop and prophecy, scatology and eschatology; he crams his script with enough belly laughs for six Adam Sandler movies and enough citations of angelology and the Gnostic gospels to make a Jesuit's head split. This is a Shavian debate--Don Juan in New Jersey--with potty mouth. Dogma, recall, comes from the Greek word meaning "to think." And that's what Smith wants the viewer...
Artist? Says who? Critics, art historians and fine-art galleries cringe at the thought that any of these "populist artists" should be taken seriously. In the highbrow art world, accessibility and affordability are often inversely proportional to merit. The populist industry's aggressive replication strategy, on the other hand, is designed to move the merchandise. "Limited editions" from populist artists are often released in quantities of 20,000 and up, using a variety of formats that range from canvas to three sizes of paper prints. Throw in the T shirts, mugs and pillows with the same images, and limited looks...
Rocket ships, shooting stars and race horses have been brought into service this past spring as metaphors for IPOs from web sites such as TheStreet.com and iVillage that tripled or quadrupled on their first day of trading. But when the highbrow site Salon when public yesterday the image was a flat flounder. Key was Salon's pioneering participation in a Net experiment that uses a Dutch auction to set the IPO price before trading. The Dutch format helped kill any big first-day run-up but it also cut out the Wall Street middlemen. Early shareholders may have missed...
...more highbrow Sunday afternoon cultural event, T down to Faneuil Hall (Government Center) at 3 p.m. to see the Boston Classical Orchestra, Program V. A collection of "Classic Firsts" by Mozart, Prokofiev and Beethoven, the concert will be conducted by Harry Ellis Dickson. Call the Boston Classical Orchestra ticket box at 423-3883 for details. Tickets range from $18-$35, but take advantage of a $5 student discount...