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...highbrow literature, and Nonami's streamlined prose is arguably not up to her prizewinning best. But this pulpy family psychodrama is hugely entertaining - like watching some filmed version of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test from an adapted screenplay by Mario Puzo and directed by Yasujiro Ozu. And it's not just grotesque fantasy. Now You're One of Us, which was originally published in 1993, as divorce rates in Japan were soaring, is also high-wire social commentary. It's a parodic rebuke of traditional cultural attitudes that subsume individual welfare for the sake of a family unit...
...MANY, DANCE CAN BE an intimidating, highbrow art form, but five-time Tony Award-winning choreographer Michael Kidd (above left) insisted that every move be "completely understandable." Kidd's philosophy of grounding dance in reality--he called it "human behavior, stylized into musical rhythmic forms"--propelled some of Broadway's and Hollywood's most memorable sequences. Among them: the barn-raising dance in the 1954 film Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse's heavenly romp through Central Park in The Band Wagon and the dynamic sequences for the original stage production of Guys and Dolls. Kidd...
...just a fucking doorman. 2. “D’oh” (“The Simpsons Movie”)—Need to vent frustration without offending your family members? Consider this innocuous syllable. Plus, the pop-culture reference will reinforce your command of highbrow art. And it’s already in the dictionary! 3. “McLovin” (“Superbad”)—Because adding “Mc” before adjectives or nouns makes words palatable and more credible. 4. “Ratatouille?...
...York Jewish intellectual." So she moved north and got a Ph.D. at Columbia. In 1945 she drew comparisons to Eudora Welty with her first novel, The Ghostly Lover. After writing for the Partisan Review, though, Hardwick became better known as a critic, co-founding the highbrow New York Review of Books in 1964 and producing such collections as Seduction and Betrayal, now standard reading for the study of women in fiction. Hardwick...
...peevishly insecure hatred of "tall poppies," people distinguished by their achievements in any area except, of course, sport. Australia has never honored its artists, intellectuals, writers and musicians as fully as its sports figures; there is always an undertow of resentment, of the lowbrows' residual suspicion that the highbrow is conning them. Everyone bitches about this; nobody does anything about it. It is hardwired into us, a proof of "toughness...