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Highbrow

Why Do We Call Some Movies 'Good' and Others 'Bad'?

Caitlin Barry | Posted 05.18.2013 | Entertainment
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Caitlin Barry

To say that Silver Linings Playbook is better than Taken is a personal choice. (I know, to some this may seem an absurd comparison.) How can we claim that one is universally better?

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Confessions of a Lowbrow

Susan Orlins | Posted 04.21.2013 | Comedy
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Susan Orlins

I like Oprah not Opera. Country not Classical. I prefer Silence to any Music at all. I choose Breakfast at Tiffany's over My Dinner With Andre. I'm a...

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Lowbrows Have More Fun

Anastasia Rubis | Posted 11.20.2012 | Fifty
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Anastasia Rubis

I've gained a new appreciation for lowbrow in middle age. I'm still enough of a snob to gravitate toward "brilliant" lowbrow as opposed to "despicable" in New York magazine's approval matrix, but give me one more decade. My tastes should be off the chart.

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