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...they had a zinc deficiency. The smile would freeze, the eyes would cloud and all signs of intelligence would fade. It could just be that Bush has had trouble defining himself--never uttering the word reform and then suddenly parading a banner--or that the nasty, lowbrow campaign in South Carolina made us all a little dumber...
...BANKING American Express has bought 4,562 more ATMs, which brings the travel-card company's total to almost 9,000. Some of these ATMs are in less than exotic locales like 7-Elevens and malls. Why? The company is planning to push into lowbrow but high-margin financial services such as wire transfers, money orders and check cashing. You'll be able to dash in for a Slurpee and a cash advance at the same time. There will be no user surcharge for AMEX banking customers and card members. Others will pay a fee that should average about...
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...
Poverty-row chillers were a staple in the 1950s, with a string of lower-than-lowbrow horror movies by such directors as Roger Corman (Not of This Earth) and William Castle (The Tingler), films that were enjoyable in direct proportion to our sense that they were made without adult supervision. The tradition was carried on by filmmakers like David Cronenberg; though later celebrated for the high-toned horror of The Fly and Dead Ringers, he never matched the shocks of his early, amateurish offerings such as Rabid and They Came from Within. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, directed by Tobe...
Shakespeare himself, who perfected the double entendre, would have appreciated the sight gags and lowbrow humor that comprise so much of this play. Traditional gags and constant physical comedy alone make this play funny, but rich word-play quickens and deepens the humor. The writers who created The Compleat Works are clearly Shakespearean scholars. "That which we call a nose, by any other name, would still smell," philosophizes one actor in the ten-minute version of Romeo and Juliet at the play's inception. Allusions to contemporary pop culture not only demonstrate Shakespeare's relevance, but allow the audience...