lowbrows

I must be one of those ignorant "lowbrows" who enjoys Jackass.

LOL: Johnny Knoxville Says Jackass 3D Will “Take the Same 3D Technology James Cameron Used in Avatar and Stick It Up Steve O’s Butt” | /Film 2009

She almost single-handedly kept the Broadway theater afloat in the twenties and had as well developed a taste for the thin rot of American pop culture as the lowbrows she tried to distance herself from.

Last Words George Carlin 2009

Anonymous said ... p.s. I get damn tired of debating the lowbrows on the wack side of things.

Impeachment? David 2006

Why should Israel be singled out for criticism by these lowbrows because of nationalism, religion, history, doing too much, doing too little?

Think Progress » Williams Confronts Kristol: ‘You Just Want War, War, War, And You Want Us In More War’ 2006

It tries at certain points to address the appeal of cheesecake art -- the weird combination of titillation and wholesomeness in this kind of artwork and photography -- but mostly it's just another standard musical about the longhairs vs. the lowbrows, and there's not enough comedy even with Elsa Lanchester around or music to make it a memorable musical.

Archive 2008-10-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2008

Guys and Dolls (1950) is arguably the best American musical: Damon Runyon's fantasy underworld didn't have to compete with the real world of Gotti and Gambino, Frank Loesser's music and lyrics showed you could make high art out of lowbrows, and Michael Kidd found a new dance language for essential human activities like striptease and shooting craps.

What Becomes A Legend? 2008

It tries at certain points to address the appeal of cheesecake art -- the weird combination of titillation and wholesomeness in this kind of artwork and photography -- but mostly it's just another standard musical about the longhairs vs. the lowbrows, and there's not enough comedy even with Elsa Lanchester around or music to make it a memorable musical.

Show Her Drinking Coca-Cola, In the Kitchen With a Can of Mazzola Jaime J. Weinman 2008

It's fallen into disuse now, and students no longer wear long-sleeved shirts on test days to hide the verb endings inked inside their wrists, but at the time it was still the ancient dividing line between the aspiring intellectuals and the future lowbrows.

Chapbook entry M-mv 2006

It is a delicious absurdity that many of those making the argument these days are, by default, lowbrows, in that they themselves were not trained thus.

Chapbook entry M-mv 2006

Some argue that it continues to be the dividing line between the aspiring intellectuals and the future lowbrows albeit, not in so many measured words.

Chapbook entry M-mv 2006