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A warm, inviting womb of a restaurant, it's a place that improbably manages to rise above the staggering kitschness of waiters exchanging 'buon appetito' with diners who don't speak a word of the language either.
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(That last fact doesn't have anything to do with the Lost Pines, but it's the kind of kitschy "giant ball of twine" thing I adore, so I've included it anyway.)
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The 15 spaces have only their fierce commitment to individuality (and, of course, their amenities) in common, ranging in style from slick minimalism to full-on kitsch.
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At first it's difficult to shake the feeling that it's kitschy schlock that they're radiating, rather than the sinister malevolence they may be aiming for.
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So, again, what about Star Trek is Jar Jar saying is 'kitschy'?
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They have been drained of meaning by their lazy overuse, dangerously sharp and potent concepts reduced to kitsch cliché.
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The world of kitsch is in a certain measure a heartless world, in which emotion is directed away from its proper target towards sugary stereotypes, permitting us to pay passing tribute to love and sorrow without the trouble of feeling them.
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There's also a notable kitsch factor about the place -- the trashy menu, the lowbrow drink selection (Mad Dog and brands of beer you swore you'd never drink again), the neon band-logo signage and the retro tuneage -- that has prompted some detractors to grumble that the brashness is a little
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Composed of hundreds of ephemeral objects, from sugar cookies to vials of cheap perfume to devotional candles, popular santos, kitschy trinkets and cans of Goya beans, ‘Infinito Botanica’ is a vast still life.
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It offers a wide variety of Christmas decorations, small gifts such as frames for photographs and figurines, silver candlesticks, candles and non-kitsch trinkets.
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In a tape loop in the living-room installation, she projects the image of an old television on two kitschy landscapes.
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In the course of their restoration of these concepts, these artists have produced a type of work...that can best be described as polit-kitsch.
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The figure of the clown, freighted with goo and ick, essentially embodies kitsch.
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The 1980s neo-expressionist David Salle practically made a career out of aping them and the "kitsch" pictures, which Mr. Picabia had derived from hack photographs in such magazines as Paris—Sex Appeal.
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Beneath the kitsch of the souvenir shops, Lourdes is raw and elemental; situated in rather gloomy inward-looking craggy mountains.
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Everything in the shop is handpicked vintage couture, collector pieces (like a variety of crinolines, ball gowns, glittery jeweled handbags, rare footwear), and different genres and styles of kitsch fashion.
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Hopkins's watercolors may sometimes come a little too close to kitsch for comfort.
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Last and his millions of fans existed defiantly in a kitsch parallel pop universe, but the bandleader did score a few notable hits with his own compositions.
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More on Ascot Tina Gaudoin on Style: A Flashy, Positively Ghastly Spectacle A Week at the Races This devotion to the Platonic ideal of the horse's head, rather than to representations of, for example, individual racehorses, readily distinguishes his sculptures from the rather pedestrian, often slightly kitsch, bronzes so often found decorating the houses of "horsey" people.
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Kitsch, using for raw material the debased and academicized simulacra of genuine culture, welcomes and cultivates this insensibility.
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This favored stop in Homestead is one man's kitschy do-it-yourself testament to lost love: Latvian immigrant Ed Leedskalnin dug up over 2.2 million tons of coral rock to build this mock castle.
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I'm still waiting for the culture to rid itself of its tiresome reverence of the 60s and kitschy kicky indulgence of the 70s, and explore the 80s as something other than an era of legwarmers, poufy hair, shoulderpads and Dallas.
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There's only one thing that's worse than kitsch and that's fashionably ironic kitsch.
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The public will goggle at the kitsch vulgarity of diamond-encrusted eggs and crystal flowers.
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Today, Liberace's name elicits smirks from many of those who recall the kitschy pianist from TV shows of their youth.
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Every year it surpasses itself with kitschness and when you see it listed on the television schedule, eyes invariably roll to heaven accompanied by moans and groans of distaste.
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Sergey Maximishin's pictures of Russia are incredible, from the kitschy to the haunting to the just plain freaky.
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I just adore the complete 'kitschness' of these pies, with a caramel glaze and piled high with popcorn.
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Earlier, he dealt with vernacular quotations, including decorative evocations of the cults of American gangsterism and Elvis Presley, and kitsch phenomena such as biker heraldry.
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Atelier Ted Noton of the Netherlands offers an alluring vision of high-class kitsch — a "vertical rainbow" of Swarovski crystals falling from the top of the rotunda to a pool on the floor, where they would be "aspirated" back to the top to descend again.
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And for a while the charm threatened to dissolve into kitsch.
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Koons's celebrated Rabbit - sometimes nicknamed the Brancusi Bunny - is not simply a parody of kitsch, Brancusi, and minimalism.
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My statue of Jesus baring his bleeding heart has everything to do with kitsch and nothing to do with religious fanaticism.
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You have to get rid of kitschy bird bath and your bear totem pole that you got in college that the neighbors hate and pull out that edger.
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And let's ask this pertinent question: What "kitschy" qualities does he feel Star Trek has?
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Symbols of the excesses of the white-shoe brigade may be kitsch and amusing, but are indicative of a society where development was pursued for the good of a few.
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This not only paved the way for pop outfits such as Steps to release covers, it assured even pointy-headed music-lovers that it was alright to be kitsch again.
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He is the author of a kitschy science fiction novel about an earthling who decides to pay back his student loan by teaching English on a distant planet.
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That new lamp they've bought is pure kitsch.
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Kitsch, I decided, is art that bears a cynical or dismissive relation to life.
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By contrast, there is very little in contemporary metropolitan architecture that rises above the kitsch and the ersatz in its efforts to provide a simulacrum of displaced nature.
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His surreal comedy should prove a perfect fit for a kitsch classic, back after nine years, as members of the public sing as their favourite stars.
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But we could also argue that the act of portraying the high priest of the Old Ones in such cutesy-kitschy form represents an attempt to tame, defang, and neuter the shrieking horror of our plight instead of gleefully accepting it.
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It treads a delicate line between tasteful extravagance and over-the-top kitsch.
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At the time I thought they where the height of utter revoltingness but now appreciate their beauty and kitschness.
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Inside it was like a Victorian jumble sale with kitsch ornaments everywhere, and the cluttered rooms lit only by the orange glow of 40-watt bulbs in frilly lampshades.
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Love it or loathe it, there's no escaping the candy-coated kitschness of St. Valentine's Day.
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The honours system is flashy, pretentious, and kitsch.
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It's retro kitsch, wonderfully camp, gleefully perverse and exaggerated and utterly great fun throughout.
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The evangelist of kitsch took one more bow, waved, and vanished - poof!
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Besides, much of the film's charm emanates from its setting rather than its kitsch value.
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Two quirky labels peddle delightful kitsch - bags with bright rickshaw art and ensembles with wicked James Bond lines The kitschdom arrived sometime ago.
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After all the temptations of the 20th century and the lack of any prospects for the future, people's souls are thirsting for kitsch.
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They ask, quite reasonably, how can you tell the difference between kitsch and tacky?
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Snip off the kitsch plastic bull attached to the capsule and concentrate instead on the tasty, plum and cherry-packed red, made from the garnacha and cariñena grapes, within.
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Although Wainwright's aesthetic is opulent, it is never kitsch.
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It had a smiley face, garish colors, a bright glaze - 40s or 50s kitsch.
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Given the title and director, I was expecting something grotty and disturbing, so I was pleasantly surprised when the film turned out to be a lighthearted kitschy romp.
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Bollywood kitsch The Indian film industry has a huge international fanbase.
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Conventional wisdom has it that kitsch - from the German language for ‘to throw together’ and implying popular or lowbrow taste - should be eschewed by the connoisseur, the lover of fine art.
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They manage to look kitsch and classic at the same time.
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Two quirky labels peddle delightful kitsch - bags with bright rickshaw Delhi can be rather dull, despite its high-end designer boutiques, but the weekend saw heightened activity, thanks to the launch of Designer Varun Sardana stripped the runway bare and removed the seats from the show area on Day 4.
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It may be hidden inside a casino but it's a world away from the glitz, chrome and kitsch of the rest of the city.
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Expect a mix of stunning artefacts, scholarly study and outright kitsch.
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Diana's estate sues them because… well, it's kitsch and tacky and maudlin and icky, isn't it?
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This New York circus duo have been a hit off-Broadway with their brand of vaudeville, kitsch and bad behaviour.
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The aesthetic that appreciates kitsch is partly ironic, involving a sort of archly detached amusement.
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His surreal comedy should prove a perfect fit for a kitsch classic, back after nine years, as members of the public sing as their favourite stars.
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But it was her bizarre eye-popping face, Baby-Jane make-up, over-coiffered hair and glam outfits that made her the kitsch legend that she is today.
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A kitschy clock in the shape of a cat swings its tail on the wall.
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Set in a beautifully kitsch New York, The Royal Tenenbaums tells the story of a most unusual family reunion.
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The debate over whether kitsch constitutes a genuine art form becomes moot if the artifact in question reaches a certain critical mass of sheer buoyancy.
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In an industry built on kitsch and cliché, acting ability often seems to languish in a distant fourth place.
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The painting has elements that recall kitschy Florida palm tree souvenirs.
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The gatehouse is a piece of early Victorian kitsch, a Swiss-style brick building clad with a wooden lattice of white crosses and dark timber rectangles, and a ridiculous but endearing balcony.
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Instead of showing examples of British design, I decided to use imagery that summed up 'Britishness' and conveyed an element of nostalgia and kitschness.
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The scene is set at a kitschy Havana nightclub where the protagonists drift off with different partners.
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He also adds that "there's a certain thing that you can't really hold onto, which is … there's a kind of kitschy quality that must go if it's going to be something that you believe is real.
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The king of kitsch, he wilfully focuses on the tackiest, most trivial productions of postmodern society.
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The Tales were a triumph of cross-fertilisation, they had a world - wide, pansexual audience that both discovered and embraced the camp and the kitsch.
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Smithsonian magazine looks at the history and tradition of hula and its reemergence from the 1950s and 60s Hawaiiana boom that threatened to turn the beautiful dance into a kitschy coconut bra-wearing simulacra of itself.
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They range from the kitschy "La Maison Voyageurs," with a stuffed Bengali tiger, mock-tortoise sofa and giant live palm in the living room to the high-ceiled zen-white Maison Blanche, filled with only white furniture a Barcelona banquette by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, a marble table by Florence Knoll and Plexiglas chairs by Philippe Starck.
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Instead, save the scythe for the kitschy styling, indolent performances, and hokey gags.
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These last features give the whole design some kitsch and lightness.
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He considered his work neither ironic nor kitsch, being convinced of its artistic seriousness.
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We move on March 17th, into leafy Hampstead (ooh, hark at us!) and this utterly cavernous 1930s mansion flat with wooden floors, white walls, enormous windows, gigantic rooms and art deco kitsch tiling in the bathroom.
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After a late dinner, we watched this wonderfully kitsch movie on my newly acquired 'Asian' channel.
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Given the title and director, I was expecting something grotty and disturbing, so I was pleasantly surprised when the film turned out to be a lighthearted kitschy romp.
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Whether you consider this too cool for words or the height of kitsch is up to you.
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Whether you enjoy it as kitsch singalong or classic family entertainment, resistance is futile.
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She establishes beyond doubt that he was a conceited careerist and ungallant husband, but doesn't necessarily prove that his work was ‘kitsch’ and ‘trash’.
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In sharp contrast to Waikiki's kitsch, tourism is quite verboten, and the island is only accessible via pricey, private helicopter tours.
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In an industry built on kitsch and cliché, acting ability often seems to languish in a distant fourth place.
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Those who love kitsch and enjoy the unreality of stage musicals will adore the colours, because they're fully in bloom.
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A lot of old advertising - still or moving - just looks clunky or kitsch as the years roll by.
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For him, one feels, the kitsch motif is first and last an occasion for pictorial experiment, as well as being a perfect correlative for the gratuitous choice to paint in the 21st century.
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Bollywood kitsch The Indian film industry has a huge international fanbase.
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Flared wraparounds made from Maharashtrian lungis and Maharashtrian Nau-vari saris, kitschy floral jholas and chappals with bead works are also lined up for display at the studio.
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The film deliberately plays for camp and kitsch, and then suddenly it becomes quite gothic.
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The fact that the restaurant rotated was too kitsch for me to say no.
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The Western appropriation of communist kitsch thrived during the Cold War, for purposes both earnest and ironic, and it has not abated since then.
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J'arrive à la conclusion, qu'il n'y a pas de réalité immorale qui ne soit pas à priori divisée, jetée, et joyeusement entrelacée par les médias ( "médiatisée"), placée de façon attractive et présentée comme "bonne" dans une vision marketing ainsi que turbulente, hyper-active, hyper-productive "Kitsch" ou "Trash".
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Locals and tourists alike find it hard to resist the allure of low-priced smoked fish, blinis, and beer served in a friendly, and, to be frank, kitschy atmosphere.
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The kitschy cuteness of kawaii (cute) consumer culture, so well documented by Sharon Kinsella in her article, " Cuties in Japan ", surfaces in several Miyazaki texts.
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The story is 19th-century Russian ballet at its most spectacularly kitsch but the classicism of Petipa's choreography remains its unsullied, exquisite heart.
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It was a kitsch, camp, very jolly holiday.
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What a great stroll down memory lane and THAT cardigan that Starsky wore
that's so kitsch that it will never, ever come back in style!
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It was music for the undiscerning, right down to the floppy fringes and semi-kitsch album artwork.
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The Name of This Book Is Secret) employs the hues and kitschy design of 1950s children's books and animation, completing the retro look with postatomic snowflake sparkles and wavering outlines that resemble stitchery.
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Beneath the kitsch of the souvenir shops, Lourdes is raw and elemental; situated in rather gloomy inward-looking craggy mountains.
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She presents characters, churches and landscapes in a naïve and nostalgic way, yet also flavoured with a bit of this kitsch.
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Herzog has continually demonstrated that environmentally friendly architecture is not synonymous with kitschy handcrafts, and a life reduced to eating muesli in mud huts.
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There's also a wonderfully kitschy, pointed altar arch, and a sequence of glitzily Baroque side chapels.
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All campery and 1970s kitsch, they have been a shining light in an otherwise dreary swamp of bad pop.
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Call it kitsch if you like, but this karaoke scene offers something which is sadly lacking from much of the contemporary social scene.
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Kitschy Christmas cards can be found at any convenience store in any town across the United States.
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Just the name pannier should evoke enough irony and kitsch.
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Some will cite a riot of paisley, fleur-de-lis or kitsch 1970s-style florals; others might envisage a gathering of smiling cherubs or a linear delight of bold and colourful stripes.
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The term kitsch was invented in pre-Hitler Czechoslovakia to describe artifacts created with great technical polish in which everyone was always ridiculously happy or sentimentally sad, but lacking any real emotion.
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It was a kitsch, camp, very jolly holiday.
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The patterns and images he adapts are seductive in their familiarity and kitschness, but also in how they have become suddenly, shimmeringly strange.
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It is a remarkable exhibit of revolutionary kitsch.
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Doilies are the kitsch crocheted napkins that people remember ouma using for afternoon teas.
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The sentiment behind this memorial may be admirable, but the result is pure kitsch.
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That new lamp they've bought is pure kitsch.
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But what’s even crazier is that with all this kitsch and purported desire, John Cox’s production, which was imported from Lyric Opera of Chicago, is more tepid, cold, and unsexy than one would imagine for such a tale.
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The old motels capitalized on regional pride and kitsch, cheerfully twisting their neon signs into oddball shapes.
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Its church was typically kitsch but we relished the tranquility.
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Kitschy LivingA whole load of kitsch from a "Nice Jewish Guys" calendar to Clockwork Orange jumpers.203gowFrom knitted benches to crocheted Buddhas, the work of the Japan's finest guerrilla crafter.
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The sleek horses, cute lambs, elephants and a hippopotamus could be auditioning for kitschy animal calendars.
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Max has grand ideas about modernity - popular images and kitsch, grotesqueries, and performance.
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What had once been high art, fashioned by the Romans or Michelangelo, has become debased, mass-culture kitsch.
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The house he and his companion inhabit, with its wood paneling, kitschy horse lamp and loosely covered sofa, is far from upscale suburbia.
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Attack of the Kindergarten manicurist, originally uploaded by kitschenette.
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Camp brown interior complete with crystal chandeliers and disco lighting, Diep is more kitsch than classy but always packed with creative young barhoppers.
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She steals a pair of ancient earrings on display in a kitschy African mall store.
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Their high-kitsch varnish was offset by an overwhelming urge to educate.
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Her nature vistas also coolly refer to the kitschy scenes found on the sides of customized vans.
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But to have the opportunity to compare Bouguereau's "L'Amour Vainqueur," a virtuosic 1886 painting of Cupid and Psyche in flight, sitting side by side with Jeff Koons's "Cherubs," a couple of kitschy putti that ought to kill the market in porcelain collectibles for good, flatters both works.
A Divine Intervention
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On the back of the cards was a picture of a Maori wahine, or a ‘questionable mass-produced image of Kiwiana kitsch’.
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Every year it surpasses itself with kitschness and when you see it listed on the television schedule, eyes invariably roll to heaven accompanied by moans and groans of distaste.
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Proulx is interested in the uncharted territory between American kitsch and genius.
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I mean, there is a certain kitsch appeal to that, but not much.
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Few colonial constructions survive, and many contemporary buildings would elsewhere be considered kitsch.
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Specializing in such life-threatening dishes as deep-fried macaroni and cheese and bread pudding made from Krispy Kreme donuts, Ms. Deen is high-voltage Dixie kitsch, a cartoon version of the kind of brassy, boozy aunt that the other aunts always refer to as a "hoot.
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They seem to specialise in shops selling kitsch - teddy bears of all descriptions; lace items that no-one uses any more such as doilies, tablecloths and those things that your grandmother used to put on the top of the milk bottle to keep the flies off; white-painted wire decorative things that look like recycled aviaries.
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Triumph des Willens in translation or perhaps kitsch is just kitsch?
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The sets look wonderfully kitsch - I especially like those pictures of pussycats in the background.
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“Up” means St Moritz, where from December until April, Milanese society is to be found every weekend munching apfelstrudel at Hanselman’s, hosting kitschy raclette parties in their houses at Zuoz or Celerina and possibly taking a run down the Trais Fluors or the Corvatsch.
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Whether you enjoy it as kitsch singalong or classic family entertainment, resistance is futile.
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Breathtakingly kitsch to the outsider, many Japanese would simply utter an awestruck "kawaii!"
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But for all its ambitions it's a mixed bag of a spectacle that smacks of kitsch calendar art.
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A James Dean type Kirk at sunset looking at the Enterprise - his future destiny - constructed in the desert … that's what I call kitsch!
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The soundtrack is a cascade of kitsch vocals and instrumental covers.
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I had lawng narro kitschin, an Josie layed akross teh floar awl teh tiem, impeedin my progress.
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Kawaii kitschness and high fashion doesn't necessarily go hand in hand.
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The good news for lovers of overwrought kitsch is that the second series promises to live up, or down, to expectations.
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The kitsch-Latino soundtrack is similarly apt and incongruous all at once.
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You may think that canapés are perfectly nice little mouthfuls of harmless kitsch, and what's the difference between a canapé in the hand or a starter on the plate.
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The current '80s crop of cartoon favorites, sitcom has-beens, embarrassing pop relics, and fashion offenses takes what was essentially kitsch to begin with and parodies it.
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Cosy can mean both warm and comforting or irritatingly twee and conventional, even sentimental and kitsch: the German gemtlich.
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There is, it must be said, a strong kitsch appeal to the supermodels' star status.
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Word has it the mullet is so kitsch, it's fashionable again.
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No hint of eighteenth-century neo-Palladian swagger or its kitsch modern imitations.
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But for all its ambitions it's a mixed bag of a spectacle that smacks of kitsch calendar art.
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Amber mists, a cloaked old man with a staff, a cluster of flamingos standing in the alpenglow—a vision so steeped in kitsch you could die just by buying the postcard.
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His claustrophobic interiors feature period furniture, kitsch objects and art works of a mostly generic modernist flavor.
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Others - notably of sleek horses, cute lambs, elephants and a hippopotamus - could be auditioning for kitschy animal calendars.
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I won't say much about the humor because I don't want to spoil anything, but I will love how they "reenacted" a kitschy and well known painting.
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Not the Catholic kitsch of bleeding statues and luminous moon-rings that captivate her foolish schoolgirlish heart.
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Lloyd Webber is devoted to Victorian art and cannot resist kitsch so long as it is Victorian kitsch.
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Why is it that with so much talent out there, you guys jump behind something that's only good for its kitsch value?
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London's victory was announced only after a presentation ceremony that scaled new heights of kitsch.
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Hanging baskets abound in pleasant, semi-urban imitation of cottagey kitsch.
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It is difficult to make fun of work done to benefit hospitalized children and to address issues of construction, ecology and public safety, but these fantastic projects may one day be culture purls for Stitchy McYarnpants at her Museum of Kitschy Stitches, when she's exhausted the wealth of acrylic and wool prizes such as crocheted beer can sleeves, pom pom barrettes and baubles, freaky ski masks, and "krotch-tite spray-on knitwear" from the 1960's and 1970's.
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From its use of living performers delivered as heads-only, to its pretentious insistence that the audience wear lab coats, this performance embodied unentertaining kitsch.
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Chinatown has always had illegal vendors who sell knock-offs and kitsch, but in the past year the industry has grown and the vendors are offering more sophisticated counterfeit goods that are in high demand.
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Entitled Kitsch Fáshion, it pushed the boundaries so far that, ironically, the story was pulled on grounds of taste.
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The dresses of the female characters incorporate dirndl skirts with wide seventeenth-century collars, while the scene in the Procters' kitchen features kitsch checked tablecloths.
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In the old Soviet days, the Samizdat used to talk of ‘kitsch’ (not the arty-farty kind), a sort of gloying jelly you had to fumble with in dealing, day-to-day with the vile nomenclature foisting its mix of ludicrous ideology, lying targets and statistics, propaganda and vicious impersonal control on all and sundry.
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It's a bit kitsch, very decadent and retro with shagpile carpets and his recording studio in the lounge.
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A desire for the experience of kitsch is a symptom of insecurity.
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He runs a kitschy bathroom novelties outlet in Los Angeles.
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The medina ( walled old town) has been rebuilt with added kitsch.
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Far more fruitful for pure kitsch purposes is the unbeloved, resplendently bad 1970s version that helped send Barbra Streisand's movie career into an aesthetic swoon from which it never truly recovered.
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While his designs still reflected his use of the brazen colours and fine craftsmanship of Bollywood costumes, the kitsch element was more restrained than in previous collections.
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Her works, which comprise photos, installations, videos and sculptures, are replete with kitschy imagery.
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Pop guitar, kitsch and classical motifs were ingeniously intertwined.
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I don't think of our show in terms of music theatre, because it's original, fairly serious and it isn't kitsch or camp.
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Their high-kitsch varnish was offset by an overwhelming urge to educate.
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No hint of eighteenth-century neo-Palladian swagger or its kitsch modern imitations.
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The poem recounts, with heavy tones and little irony, the kitschy mock-trial proceedings, in which an audience of tourists deems Bishop guilty of witchery.
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The mix is astonishing, from the kitsch to the majestic, from the grotesque to the sublime.
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Last and his millions of fans existed defiantly in a kitsch parallel pop universe, but the bandleader did score a few notable hits with his own compositions.
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It cost more than she'd intended but would serve both recipients, a touristic piece of kitsch to remind them of Iraklion.
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There was very little here of the kitsch of Beverly Hills: no faux-French châteaux sitting side by side with faux-Tudor mansions.
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Valentine's Day used to be known as a kitsch, childish and generally innocent celebration where teenagers sent themselves cards and married couples enjoyed biannual conjugal relations.
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But my new favourite, the big daddy of kitsch, landed last week.
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It is of a transcendent level of kitsch, unsurpassed in any votive shrine I've ever seen.
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Gorgeous women in fabulous saris floated through kitsch marble bathrooms with gold taps, trailing pink toilet paper behind them like veils.
