| 单词 | middlebrow |
| 例句 | Every now and then a racy book about lowlife—Tobacco Road, for example—would catch the public fancy, but for a surprisingly long time middlebrow fiction in America was about upper-middle-class life. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z It is the cheapest target of all: Humanism is sentimental, flabby, bourgeois, hypocritical, complacent, middlebrow, liberal, sanctimonious, constricting and often an alibi for power. Among the Disrupted 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z Unlike Parsons, I am not a best-selling author of middlebrow sensitive lad lit. Tony Parsons, that airport job was mine 2011-08-06T12:00:00Z The novel’s protagonist, an office girl in a company that makes hosiery, lives at home with her middlebrow parents. How a Grandmother’s Diary Led to a Long-Lost Literary Gem 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z His design summed up the center’s white-shoe, middlebrow ambitions. A Notoriously Jinxed Concert Hall Is Reborn, Again 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Timberg’s vision of the middlebrow arts suggests the implicit cultivation, or restoration, of mid-century New Deal and Great Society progress through artistic culture. The Creative Class and the Movies 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z But there is a tendency in English literary culture towards the high middlebrow. Will Self, on himself 2012-08-20T11:45:00Z The use of Beethoven’s Fifth as interstitial music suggests only middlebrow ambition. Review: Look Up! It’s Amy Schumer in ‘Meteor Shower’ 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z Last season’s winner, Mr. Colon, and the runner-up, Dia Frampton, were both middlebrow major-label refugees, and while they performed well on the show, their subsequent albums were met with lack of interest. Critic?s Notebook: ?The Voice? and ?American Idol? Switch Targets 2012-03-27T23:03:32Z It is unfair to label them mainstream, a word that denotes middle-of-the-road, even middlebrow. 2010-02-12T17:26:00Z “The basic tone of Times criticism was middlebrow and allrightnik,” he writes. Books of The Times: ‘Steal the Menu,’ by Raymond Sokolov 2013-05-09T21:24:23Z It is a great scene, inspired in its lack of middlebrow restraint. The Paperboy – review 2013-03-14T15:00:01Z Mr. Nichols became a specialist in middlebrow fare — the sort that film historian and critic David Thomson has described as “really neat, cute, smart ideas that can be grasped in 20 minutes.” Mike Nichols, ‘The Graduate’ director, dies But it’s in the more pretentious reaches of the commercial theater — the haute middlebrow, if you will — that mid-20th century Broadway traditions are still the default. Oh, the dreaded intermission: Long plays at a time when shorter is sweeter 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z Inevitably, he was demonised by the new Royal Court generation of the mid-1950s, and Rattigan did not help his cause by inventing a figure to represent his middle-class audiences: the determinedly middlebrow Aunt Edna. The best theatre for 2011 2011-01-03T08:00:08Z But the bellwethers — so-called Oscar bait — tend to garner attention because they are generally released near the end of the year, and represent some ideal of the high-minded and the middlebrow, some ideal of importance. Movies the Oscars Will Overlook, but Shouldn’t 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Another: the overly careful and inoffensively middlebrow tone. Best and Worst Moments of the 75th Tony Awards 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z The charm of Hornby’s previous books has been the way they balance middlebrow uplift with enough emotional truth to make the fantasy feel grounded. The Brexit Romance: Finding Love in Irreconcilable Times 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z “West Side Story” sits near the pinnacle of post-World War II American middlebrow culture. ‘West Side Story’ Review: In Love and War, 1957 Might Be Tonight 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z I grew up in rural France with just three channels, but at least they regularly showed classics and middlebrow comedies; I learned to enjoy both. A Night at the Theater From Your Couch? No Apologies Needed. 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z With his cool poise and his penchant for an occasional well-timed jibe, he consistently personified the show's middlebrow sophisticated brand. Alex Trebek has died: Remembering the "Jeopardy!" host who made asking questions fun 2020-11-08T05:00:00Z He can be artistically tame and middlebrow, where being bold might work. A predicament right out of a melodramatic opera 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z The meme-ified series compose a new middlebrow, creative enough to alienate conventional sitcom fans and attract viewers in search of a challenge but not complex or jarring enough to be off-putting. Television: ?Parks and Recreation? and Other Sitcoms? Hashtags and Memes 2011-12-09T22:31:54Z It was always resolutely middlebrow as last year's controversy over "readable books" that "zip along" amply illustrated. The Booker steps away from being its own genre 2012-07-28T08:00:02Z In what we would now call a bid to troll the middlebrow, his editor instead supplied the proto-clickbait headline “Who Cares if You Listen?” Making Milton Babbitt’s Legacy Less Fearsome 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z The awards bestowed on Shakespeare in Love and on The King's Speech are evidence for the American academy's enthusiasm for literate, middlebrow British movies full of nicely dressed Rada graduates. The troubled heart of Ealing and British postwar cinema 2011-07-21T21:00:04Z Only Ferrara, that raucous director, could have made it – being so entirely unencumbered by the kind of middlebrow good taste that might have led another kind of film-maker into revisionism and equivocation. Welcome to New York review – Abel Ferrara is unencumbered by good taste 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z Butler also takes Millie back home to her clueless, middlebrow parents’ house. Two Novels for and About Lost Millennial Women 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z The aim to diversify the movies looks like it’s taking hold just as there are fewer middlebrow studio movies and streaming is becoming king. Dear Oscars, I Love You. But We Need to Talk. 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z The midcentury middlebrow was defined most incisively by Russell Lynes, a brilliant magazine editor and pop sociologist whose 1949 Harper’s essay “Highbrow, Lowbrow, Middlebrow” remains instructive and amusing to this day. A Resurgence in Inequality and Its Effects on Culture 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z She is working on a book about British middlebrow fiction of the 20th century. In Knausgaard’s ‘Spring,’ a Man Considers How Best to Help His Sick Wife 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z The kind of middlebrow period entertainments with a liberal social message, aimed at an adult audience, that used to win Oscars are now almost a defunct genre. The Oscars: Who calls the shots? 2011-02-24T21:45:00Z We now live under the hybrid tyranny of middlebrow. Is the age of the critic over? 2011-01-30T00:07:09Z Kinkade's sentimental paintings, with their scenes of country gardens and churches in dewy morning light, were beloved by middlebrow America but reviled by the art establishment. Artist Thomas Kinkade dies in Calif. at age 54 2012-04-07T04:56:37Z In the hectic heyday of the middlebrow, intellectuals gazed back longingly at earlier dispensations when masterpieces were forged in conditions of inequality by lucky or well-born artists favored by rich or titled patrons. A Resurgence in Inequality and Its Effects on Culture 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z Spielberg, a consummate showman and fluent storyteller, was steeped in the middlebrow movie grammar he grew up with, reimagining those reassuringly familiar structures to create the fairy tales and myths of a new generation. Perspective | The Stevens — Soderbergh and Spielberg — defined late-20th-century film. Can they agree on its 21st-century future? 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z A few days later “Inside Amy Schumer” won a Peabody Award, television’s seal of middlebrow cultural respectability, alongside dramas like “The Americans” and “The Honorable Woman.” TV Review: ‘Inside Amy Schumer’ Season 3 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z Lively’s prose is sharp, precise, perfectly pitched, but shrinks from flashiness in a way that has sometimes been mistaken for cozy or middlebrow. ‘A Writer Writes’: Penelope Lively’s Fiction Defies the Test of Time 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, Ray's kind of film-making – now diluted into a middlebrow, socially relevant "parallel" cinema, largely uninterested, unlike Ray or Guru Dutt, in the luminous image – was also, decisively, dying out. Amit Chaudhuri: 'How I learned to love Bollywood' 2013-07-25T19:00:01Z For most of the millions of people who watch TED videos at the office, it’s a middlebrow diversion and a source of factoids to use on your friends. Internet doomsday, explained 2012-05-16T11:45:00Z It’s all so “middlebrow,” to use a popular critical buzzword that reeks of condescension. Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche Star in ‘Words and Pictures’ 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z That may sound odd, since “middlebrow” is the kind of word rarely said without a sneer. A Resurgence in Inequality and Its Effects on Culture 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z By the nineteen-fifties, versions of the questionnaire, usually addressed to writers and other literary intellectuals, began to appear regularly in upmarket French magazines, eventually becoming a staple of European middlebrow journalism. How the Proust Questionnaire Went from Literary Curio to Prestige Personality Quiz 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z You write about current religious popular art feeling “middlebrow, garish and naïve” or “ingenuous and tacky.” ArtsBeat: Ross Douthat Talks About the State of American Christianity 2012-04-26T14:36:32Z It was a referendum on a certain genre of canned, cocktail-party social science, one that traffics in bespoke platitudes for the middlebrow and rehearses the same studies without saying something new. Review: Jonah Lehrer’s ‘A Book About Love’ Is Another Unoriginal Sin 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z In that play Ms. Findlay portrayed a suburban woman deathly afraid of cats, and there’s something defensively middlebrow, despite the advanced degree, about her Hazel, too. Review: In ‘The Children,’ the Waters Rise and a Reckoning Comes Due 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z While Durant was sometimes pooh-poohed by the snooty as middlebrow and facile, he nonetheless brought history to vivid life and made complex ideas understandable. Perspective | Remember when high culture was revered? Louis Menand’s ‘The Free World’ made me nostalgic. 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z And fashion is based on middle-class, middlebrow values, despite the mock defiance of an occasional licensed fool, like Vonnegut. Interview: Gore Vidal 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z With such high stakes in tourism, the island has begun looking beyond its traditional market, the sand-and-sun visitors and the stable of honeymooners who reliably fill the giant middlebrow Jamaican-owned Sandals and Couples resorts. Jamaica, Beyond the Beach 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Like one of those smart middlebrow TV shows, the speciousness of is disguised by its topicality. Everyone's a critic now 2011-01-30T00:06:14Z Toy Story 3 Yes, I think this will be the year a Pixar movie finally makes the best-picture list, but given the Academy's particular blend of middlebrow obtuseness, there's no telling. Early Oscar odds: "Inception" vs. "Social Network" 2010-10-21T11:01:00Z But it is hard to look back at the middlebrow era without being dazzled by its scale, complexity and size, and without also, perhaps, feeling a stab of nostalgia. A Resurgence in Inequality and Its Effects on Culture 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z But Ms. Dignam’s script distills the novel into middlebrow Hollywood treacle. Review: In ‘Submergence,’ a Love Story Sunk by Geopolitics 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z To mandarins like Virginia Woolf, it was irredeemably middlebrow; she referred to it as the “Betwixt and Between Company.” A Century of the BBC, a ‘Quasi-Mystical’ Part of England’s Psyche 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z Portentously titled “Next Year in Jerusalem,” the Gagosian exhibition is effective middlebrow art as catharsis, spectacle with a message. Art Review: A Spectacle With a Message 2010-11-19T06:45:00Z Whether middlebrow or low, these works reshape Diana to their own needs, borrowing her familiar, eventful yet unknowable story to sell mere gossip as relatable real-life tragedy. ‘Diana, the Musical’ Review: Exploiting the People’s Princess 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z It can be as serendipitously digressive as his podcasts, or as alienatingly middlebrow as his Wagner documentary, or as mildly informative as QI. Stephen Fry Live 2010-09-22T00:33:00Z Perhaps works that demand much of both the eye and the mind fail to pass the middlebrow test. ‘The Shape of Water’ and ‘Big Little Lies’ Lead Golden Globe Nominations 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z This overlooked the fact that the other three weren't, or that, year after year, the Stirling jury is loaded in favour of the established and middlebrow. Coming up short 2010-07-24T23:05:00Z His own art isn’t as generous; it surveys “so-called middlebrow culture,” as the news release describes it, with reflexive disdain. Art In Review: JOHN MILLER: ?Suburban Past Time? 2012-02-16T22:48:16Z It was aggressively not trying to be middlebrow.” Possessed: The Coveter?s Dilemma 2011-07-22T23:27:46Z In later years Trilling came to be honored as a great critic and teacher, while Fadiman was regularly dismissed as a middlebrow popularizer, the consumerist class’s favorite intellectual caterer. A daughter’s loving homage to her famed, flawed father 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z A name for that place, in the postwar years, would be America, which emerged as a kind of Promised Land — or nightmarish dystopia, depending on whom you asked — of middlebrow culture. A Resurgence in Inequality and Its Effects on Culture 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z What has really shrunk is what’s in between: the well-made trifle, the middlebrow entertainment and, strikingly, the light comedy. Critic’s Notebook: Broadway’s Laughs, From Nathan Lane to Bette Midler 2013-05-29T16:05:07Z This may suggest an all-too-familiar Broadway recipe for flattering middlebrows into feeling highbrow, allowing audience members to signal their sophistication with knowing laughs at intellectual references. Theater Review | 'Red': Alfred Molina as Mark Rothko in John Logan?s Drama 2010-04-02T10:10:00Z Thomson tore into this middlebrow utopia with unconcealed glee, killing one sacred crow after another. Virgil Thomson’s Enduring Critique of Classical Music in America 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z In middlebrow land, the three-volume set of Joseph Paxton’s “Flower Garden” is a treat. | Floral and Hardy 2011-02-08T20:46:38Z “The experience instilled in me a certain condescension toward middlebrow taste.” Film: Attitude Adjustment: How Harvard Views ?Love Story? 2010-08-22T01:13:00Z In a period when a modernist aesthetic prevailed, with its deep suspicion of narrative in painting, her work could appear too confidently representational, too middlebrow. Laura Knight: The unashamed illustrator 2013-07-06T08:01:40Z There is nothing as profoundly patronising as a middlebrow, supposedly "literary" author on a soapbox. Paulo Coelho's attack on Ulysses insults readers 2012-08-08T11:26:38Z With its dearth of substance and its wandering focus, this is a middlebrow bodice-ripper posing as an epic that hasn’t the foggiest idea of what it wants to say. ‘Beloved Sisters,’ Directed by Dominik Graf 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z I’d probably call “Private Means” middlebrow, except that in our newly egalitarian cultural landscape we spurn terminology that locates a work within a hierarchy of the high and low. Scenes From a Marriage: One Cheats, the Other Wants To 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z Though some critics inevitably disdained Mr. Cahill’s books as middlebrow, many others, including eminent scholars, praised his gift for bringing arcane topics to life. Thomas Cahill, Popular Writer of Ireland’s History, Dies at 82 2022-10-30T04:00:00Z Ader mulched copies of the middlebrow magazine in a backyard compost heap, later moving the pile into his studio and adding grow lights to accelerate the decay. Restoring the tragicomic tone to Bas Jan Ader 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z Mr. Starr, for his part, takes issue with those who characterize him as resolutely middlebrow. Daniel Rose, an American in Paris, Comes Home to Cook 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z Indignant scholars have caricatured him as a middlebrow hack who brutally lopped away a tenth of the novel, prudishly censored its erotic passages, and forced Lawrence, in a huff, to take his next novel elsewhere. Sons and Lovers: a century on 2013-05-25T07:00:22Z Perhaps my elitism is what has kept me from being one, believing myself to be above the kind of middlebrow obsession that fandom demands. I was a music snob, until I fell for One Direction 2012-10-25T17:33:00Z But in his new brasserie, Luc, the "Chef in the Hat" aims for the casual and middlebrow, even offering a late-night happy hour. Happy hour at Luc: where $1 Rainier beer and lamb sausage coexist 2010-10-12T20:39:00Z Those who prefer their choreography more abstract and their theater less middlebrow will have to look elsewhere. 'In Your Arms' a pleasing, sketch-heavy dance-musical at the Old Globe 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z And yet the respectable films of that era may represent the last gasp of a noble middlebrow ideal. Film: That Unmistakable Streepness 2010-02-20T04:19:00Z With a fall of just 23%, the gentlest of any film in the top 10, French true story Untouchable is winning the battle for fans of middlebrow uplift. Taken 2 takes UK box office by storm – and surprise 2012-10-09T13:52:27Z At the three Uni K Wax Centers in New York, about 80 percent of the Celebrity Brow customers choose the same celebrity: Catherine Zeta-Jones — because her brows are, well, middlebrow. Skin Deep: Salons Offering a Menu of Pre-Selected Looks 2012-06-19T16:36:05Z Ghost stories belong to — brace yourself for maximum Fiedlerian venom — “middlebrow craftsmen,” who will peddle them to a rapidly dwindling audience and into an extinction that can’t come soon enough. The Ghost Story Persists in American Literature. Why? 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z Once they tended to reward middlebrow, popular fare – Titanic, Forrest Gump, Gladiator, Rain Man – which put mainstream talent on the podium. Oscars on edge: in a strange year for Hollywood, anything is up for grabs 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z The clip was a lot more absurd than we’re used to in late night comedy these days, after decades of middlebrow Jay Leno and the increasing conservatism of David Letterman. Stephen Colbert's bearded Late Show promo – a sign of schticks to come? 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z The arrangements were meant to appeal to a wholesome, middlebrow Soviet ear, but also to suggest an ancient Russian musical essence. Choir in Plane Crash Projects Russian Pride and Soft Power 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z At the very least, this is a spectacularly tone-deaf approach, couching the controversy in terms of how it has not affected a man’s ability to continue to produce his middlebrow comedies on demand. Ronan Farrow is right: THR’s breezy Woody Allen profile is “a sterling example of how not to talk about sexual assault” 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z In simplest terms, Cook’s Illustrated focuses on preparing middlebrow American dishes at home with supermarket ingredients and omits everything glossy cooking magazines have come to be known for. Cook’s Illustrated’s Christopher Kimball Believes Cooking Is Ultraserious Business 2012-10-14T16:30:31Z The movie has now been positioned as something that only conventional, middlebrow folk will celebrate. “La La Land” and the Oscars: Why the movie attracts haters 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Like the later, sociologically related terms “yuppie” and “hipster,” middlebrow is a name you would never call yourself, but rather a semantic shoe that belongs on someone else’s foot. A Resurgence in Inequality and Its Effects on Culture 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z The tone is avuncular, aiming for that audience that was once called middlebrow. An avuncular Frank Gehry takes to the Web in new online master class 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z The soloist-with-strings format has long been a sign of middlebrow aspiration in jazz, reflecting both a desire to impress and an urge to transcend. Music Review: Joshua Redman at Town Hall 2013-06-06T21:53:18Z Neither a radical updating nor a stiff exercise in middlebrow cultural respectability, Mr. Fukunaga’s film tells its venerable tale with lively vigor and an astute sense of emotional detail. | 'Jane Eyre': Radiant Spirit Blossoms in Barren Land 2011-03-10T22:30:15Z This is a surprisingly middlebrow concept for a supposedly highbrow jukebox presentation, and the visuals don’t help. Review: In ‘Maestro,’ a Downbeat Look at the Great Toscanini 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z There were kiosks specializing in street food from regions like Puglia and Calabria, as well as high-end and middlebrow restaurants. In Eataly, an Italian Amusement Park for Foodies 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z “Seminar” makes astute use of topical and intellectual references, which are usually well known enough to make middlebrow audiences feel highbrow. Theater Review: ?Seminar,? by Theresa Rebeck, With Alan Rickman - Review 2011-11-21T03:01:23Z And he’d begun conceiving this before the sort of lower- to middlebrow vampire boom? | Tilda Swinton 2014-03-11T19:00:39Z Not long ago, these progenitors of virtually all modern musical theater were widely considered dull, stodgy middlebrows. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z The English writer Tom McCarthy has been waging a one-man war against literary realism, or as he sometimes calls it, “the middlebrow commercial novel,” for coming on 20 years now. Reality According to Tom McCarthy 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z The idea alone is baffling, and there was no way Mayer or Green Day could reconcile the middlebrow musical with the low-brow punk song. Green Day: Rock’s saddest joke 2012-07-16T21:10:00Z If Roman was feeling insecure about being middlebrow, however, bashing Teigen for having a line at a discount store like Target gave her a chance to feel a little more hip and interesting. Chrissy Teigen and Alison Roman's fight reveals a deep well of women's insecurity about cooking 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z Advertisement See More » “Woman in Gold” might be the epitome of middlebrow moviemaking, but it was released far enough outside the scrum that that classification wasn’t worth making. Movies the Oscars Will Overlook, but Shouldn’t 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z For fans of the series, “Furious 7” is how they will mourn Walker, whose entire career became the franchise, after a few short stints in similarly middlebrow films. My “Fast and Furious” love: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and the raw, turbo-charged soul of “Furious 7″ 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z The middlebrow novel has never really interested me; these Booker prize novels full of feeling and observation and all this stuff about human life or reality, whatever that is. That's never been my thing. Jeff Noon: a life in writing 2013-04-20T07:29:01Z Like its competitor, House Beautiful, House & Garden was then a middlebrow publication devoted to recipes, D.I.Y. decorating and handicrafts. Louis Oliver Gropp Dies at 88; Led Shelter Magazines Through Turmoil 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z No matter how hard he tries to emulate Trump at the level of rhetoric and talking points, DeSantis's style is hopelessly Magoo and middlebrow. Ron DeSantis is dry and dull — yet still more dangerous than Donald Trump 2023-06-05T04:00:00Z Voters shouldn’t be allowed off the hook because of their middlebrow views. Beyoncé, the all-time leading Grammy winner, should never attend another Grammy Awards 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z Her parents ran in avant-garde circles in Prague but resigned themselves to life in the middlebrow, middle-class community of Czech emigres in mid-century Manhattan. Review | Janet Malcolm, chronicler of psychiatry, shied away from self-analysis 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z "Declaration of illegitimacy is step 1," Rhodes texted in the middle of a dinner of middlebrow Italian-American cuisine. Trial shows Oath Keepers never wanted January 6 to end, and GOP candidates plan to grant their wish 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z The middle classes, stuck in between and having the most to lose, are prone to being the most risk-averse; it’s why middlebrow tastes are considered “respectable” yet blandly conventional. What hip-hop bling reveals about American status anxiety 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z Johnson the undergraduate classicist, Eton rhetorician and middlebrow biographer was fond of making quotations, stitching together attitudes and throwing out highfalutin references to fascinate and flatter down-home audiences. Perspective | Exit, Boris Johnson. Sort of — he’s still hogging the stage. 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z White was gifted with wide appeal, and she never betrayed a moment’s regret about the ordinary, middlebrow business of broadcast TV. Opinion | The enduring, aspirational appeal of Betty White 2022-01-01T05:00:00Z But in some ways, it merely signified a return to form for a right-leaning, middlebrow paper that staunchly supports the Conservative Party and led the charge for Brexit over the past two decades. A Tabloid ‘Game of Thrones’ in London Could Tilt U.K. Politics 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z There are moments in “The French Dispatch” when it’s unclear if Anderson is paying tribute to the arch tone and middlebrow high-mindedness the New Yorker came to symbolize, or making a burlesque of it. Review | ‘The French Dispatch’ is pretty and playful but with little genuine curiosity 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z At first, it seems familiar: As in his great six-volume autobiographical novel, “My Struggle,” major subjects include bourgeois anxiety and malaise, the stock-in-trade of middlebrow fiction. Review: Author Karl Ove Knausgaard, famously extreme realist, goes supernatural 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z But the case for the Emmys as a collective showcase of the industry’s middlebrow finest is an easy one to make — at least for the medium’s sake. Perspective | This year’s Emmys are favoring mass appeal over the niche and artsy. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z Nichols and May blew up, became a Thing, helping create what now goes by the name “upper middlebrow” taste. Review: In 'Mike Nichols: A Life,' a brilliant portrait of the director who made his luck 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z But a lesser-discussed trend in TV is the resurgence of the middlebrow thriller, a genre that has become endangered at the multiplex but lives on in suspenseful melodramas like “The Affair” and “You.” How Nicole Kidman's rich white women took over television 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z Dwight D. Eisenhower was supposedly a bumbling middlebrow. 5 great things Biden has already done 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z Neither brain-tingling high-mindedness nor mass-market easy reading, too intensive for drugstore shelves but beneath the notice of online critical banter, middlebrow fiction is tucked away in a hidden valley between profit and prestige. Review: Not your average queer, meta-fictional spooky Victorian romp 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z And yet “The Good Liar,” a modest middlebrow thriller, never lives up to the sheer pleasure of seeing its two leads together, for the first time as co-stars. Review: ‘The Good Liar’ pairs Mirren and McKellen 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z Yes, “middlebrow mediocrity” is such a fitting term. Why David Henry Hwang defends theater's Michael Ritchie and 'bravest act of producing' 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z The movie’s gags are often middlebrow — Bruce parts his tomato soup in a diner as if it were the Red Sea — and its theology largely superficial. No one would hire Hollywood's top comedy director. An exonerated football star changed that 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z It was as a hack, writing for the middlebrow “Tory Telegraph,” that Johnson learned to combine his high and his low. Want to understand Boris Johnson, Britain’s probable next prime minister? Read his incendiary journalism. 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z The Hollywood Reporter: “David Mamet’s latest effort, which the playwright has also directed, is just as diagrammatic, glib and insincere as any over-massaged middlebrow Miramax film from the 1990s.” David Mamet’s Harvey Weinstein play opens. The reviews? ‘Monstrous misfire’ 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z Open Nature Uncured Beef Franks Score: 71 The remarks on this one were pretty middlebrow. Perspective | What’s the best hot dog in America? We tried 15 popular brands to find out. 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z But partly because the books were labeled — even by Wouk — as “romances,” they were not taken as seriously either as literature or as history, reinforcing his image as a “middlebrow” writer. Herman Wouk, Pulitizer Prize-winning author of 'Winds of War' and 'The Caine Mutiny,' dies at 103 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z This new old form, which would define television comedy well into the present century, would of course produce plenty of dross and dreck, along with a wealth of well-executed, perfectly enjoyable middlebrow entertainments. ‘The Big Bang Theory’ is ending, but we shouldn't let multi-cam sitcoms die. Here's why 2019-05-05T04:00:00Z If there is a crisis of liberalism at present, it lies in its retreat to a middlebrow bunker of confirmation bias. To rage against Donald Trump’s state visit to the UK is simply childish | Simon Jenkins 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z “In some ways, he epitomizes the great era of middlebrow art in America, when audiences rewarded artists who crafted popular art with a dose of aesthetic sophistication and packaged it for crossover success.” André Previn, musical polymath and Oscar-winning composer and conductor, dies at 89 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z And the right talent can sometimes turn the middling and the middlebrow into must-see theater. Critic's Notebook: Star turns that serve the Broadway play — Elaine May, Daniel Radcliffe and Janet McTeer show how it's done 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z A bland vulgarization that waters down the high and flattens out the low, middlebrow was an art of homogeneous mush. Review: Laura Owens' new MOCA show grasps the perpetual power of taboo 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z For decades, the town has persisted as a stubbornly middlebrow enclave on what residents proudly refer to as Florida’s “Forgotten Coast.” Could rebuilding ruin ‘mom-and-pop’ Florida beach town? 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z When Markle did so, it was quickly seized upon by, among others, the online commenters at the Daily Mail, the country’s most popular middlebrow right-wing newspaper. Meghan Markle’s Ever-So-Slightly Radical Cookbook 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z Le Coin is comfortable and relaxed, with a middlebrow menu of European-influenced cuisine. Fremont’s Le Coin is a comfortable and relaxed spot for the neighborhood 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z As this list shows, the influence travels from the highbrow to the middlebrow to the lowbrow. How “Little Women” Got Big 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z The catalog is a scrapbook, in other words, which left me wondering: Is there anything more middlebrow than scrapbooking? Review: Laura Owens' new MOCA show grasps the perpetual power of taboo 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z They were middlebrow, middle class and middle of the road politically. Opinion | Trump is the first Digital Age president 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z There are few surprises delivered in “Skyscraper,” an entertaining if middlebrow thriller whose very name — blandly descriptive, generic — seems to advertise its fungibility. Review | In ‘Skyscraper,’ The Rock jumps off a crane into a burning building. Hey, it’s summer. 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z The literary diet that emerges from these lists, mixing disposable genre fiction with unrepentant classics and, for the most part, skipping the indigestibly middlebrow, is one that I happen to share. Bill Clinton and James Patterson’s Concussive Collaboration 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z But I also remember our capacity to take decent middlebrow novels such as HG Wells’s Ann Veronica or Somerset Maugham’s Liza of Lambeth and turn them into dismal shows full of thumbs-in-waistcoat choreography. Andrew Lloyd Webber at 70: how a ruthless perfectionist became Mr Musical 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z She began to make paintings that do not fawn over some supposed virtue of middlebrow culture, but they do grasp the perpetual, ruminative power of taboo. Review: Laura Owens' new MOCA show grasps the perpetual power of taboo 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z Otherwise, after several hundred years of life, Altered Carbon’s Meths have settled on two hobbies: admiring the middlebrow neoclassical decor of their private sky mansions, and killing poor people. Netflix’s Altered Carbon misses the point of cyberpunk 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z As in so many middlebrow period dramas, the vintage cars are too shiny, the clothes too smart, the upper-class accents too strained and the dialogue too contrived. Winnie-the-Pooh brought joy to readers, but misery to the Milnes 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z While many critics viewed the club as middlebrow, it became a powerful literary institution in the U.S. South Korea, Republican Party, Jobs Report: Your Friday Briefing 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z "If you look back, you see the winners tend to be high middlebrow," says Thelma Adams by way of explanation. Oscars 2017: Do the best films and performances win? - BBC News 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z These books are not middlebrow; that is, they are not earnest pretenders to art and edification. How the publishing industry took on the taboo. 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z No matter the setup, however, the film always handles its characters delicately, with all the risk-taking of a middlebrow sitcom. Spy comedy ‘Keeping Up with the Joneses’ plays it safe, delivering few laughs 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Leave Temecula to the middlebrow folks, some sniff, to quaff their “fruit bombs.” Temecula winemakers are sick of the haters. They want to change your mind about SoCal wine 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Instead they manage an online magazine, photo service and other digital enterprises; celebrate the middlebrow and the ornery; and revel in sponsorships and branding opportunities that efface any distinction between creation and complicity. Welcome to the LOLhouse: how the Berlin Biennale became a slick, sarcastic joke 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z He's a great filmmaker because he can hit these beats so well; even though this is his most middlebrow Oscar-baity film, it's also an antidote to that. Feminism, Spielberg and a German showstopper: Times staffers make sense of Cannes 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z The continued sales declines and the recent filings of middlebrow retailers BHS and Austin Reed for protection from creditors are among the latest signs of deep trouble for the high street. U.K. Retail Sales Spell Gloom for High Street 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z Famuyiwa directs it like a middlebrow prestige picture, all tasteful compositions and somber music. HBO’s Confirmation looks for the real villains in the Anita Hill hearings 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z It proved that something quiet, sweet and real could survive in that mausoleum of middlebrow bombast. Looking back: Elliott Smith and Three 6 Mafia were too good for the Oscars 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z A light dusting of Milton notwithstanding, its pitch is mainstream and middlebrow. 'Lucifer' brings Prince of Darkness to L.A. 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z First sold in London by the shop at the Victoria and Albert Museum, it became a middlebrow staple when the recession, initially merely the slightly euphemistic “credit crunch”, hit. Keep Calm and Carry On – the sinister message behind the slogan that seduced the nation 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z As the scholar Michael Anderegg has observed, Welles’s unruly and anarchic Shakespeare was out of step with Cold War middlebrow culture. A Hundred Years of Orson Welles 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z If Meyers is clued into this confusion, then you know it really has gone far, wide and middlebrow. The Year We Obsessed Over Identity 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z “There's a certain kind of middlebrow, higher-end American independent that has stars in it, possibly well intentioned but in no way adventurous, that I'm not interested in,” he told The Times in 2010. David Ansen named lead programmer of Palm Springs International Film Festival 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z The collective effort of museums and networks to prey on middlebrow pretenses with educational programming reeks of cultural elitism. 'The Twilight Zone' Trounces Salvador Dali In This Jewish Museum TV Art Exhibit 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z Ms. Turner said she envisioned Playboy as “a kind of heir to the old-fashioned middlebrow magazines of yore,” such as the Saturday Evening Post and Collier’s. Alice K. Turner, fiction editor at Playboy magazine for two decades, dies 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z The report also said: "Those who read 'highbrow' fiction made greater vocabulary gains than those who read middlebrow fiction; and lowbrow fiction readers made no more progress than non-readers." Tabloid readers 'lag in word tests' 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z “Interstellar” is about the recovery, in the greatest mass medium, of hope and drive and intelligence, about the very promise of a robust, elevating middlebrow. The Exacting, Expansive Mind of Christopher Nolan 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Perhaps it all goes to show that the middlebrow is inherently corrupt. I saw Rolf Harris's dark side when I questioned his portrait of the Queen 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z We equate maturity with middlebrow sentimentality, treating sadness as the be-all and end-all of meaningful fiction. Big-budget action games shouldn't be Hollywood tragedies 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z The fair was less popular with critics, though, who derided it as backward-looking, middlebrow fare. Op-Ed Contributor: Tomorrow’s America, in Queens 2014-04-21T23:15:30Z Blood Will Out has plenty of cultural references, but all trade firmly above middlebrow. Dupe Tells All 2014-03-16T22:00:55Z It’s probably this penchant for virtual violence that leads Britain’s bestselling middlebrow paper, the Daily Mail, to make the ridiculous claim that British crime rates were worse than in South Africa and the U.S. The Good News No One Believes 2012-11-25T13:20:00Z The organs of middlebrow centrist opinion — Time magazine, Atlantic Monthly , The New Republic — glorify TFA at every opportunity. Teach for America: Liberal mission helps conservative agenda 2011-12-25T21:00:00Z Britain's tabloids — not just the red-tops but also the middlebrow Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday — are conduits and connectors in this fractured society. Tabloid Bites Man 2011-07-14T09:10:00Z |
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