{"id":80932,"date":"2014-12-17T09:30:19","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T14:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=80932"},"modified":"2014-12-17T10:06:24","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T15:06:24","slug":"still-in-the-grip-of-kitsch-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/17\/still-in-the-grip-of-kitsch-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Still in the Grip of Kitsch, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_80934\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/lourdes_boulevard_de_la_grotte_8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-80934\" class=\"wp-image-80934\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/lourdes_boulevard_de_la_grotte_8.jpg\" alt=\"Lourdes_boulevard_de_la_grotte_8\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-80934\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Jean-No\u00ebl Lafargue<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypl.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/09\/times-new-roman\" target=\"_blank\">The origins of Times New Roman<\/a>, the trustiest typeface of the PC era: \u201cTimes New Roman began as a challenge, when esteemed type designer Stanley Morison criticized London\u2019s newspaper <em>The Times<\/em> for being out-of-touch with modern typographical trends. So <em>The Times <\/em>asked him to create something better. Morison enlisted the help of draftsman Victor Lardent and began conceptualizing a new typeface with two goals in mind: efficiency\u2014maximizing the amount of type that would fit on a line and thus on a page\u2014and readability.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/magazine-30439633\" target=\"_blank\">A history of kitsch and its enduring power<\/a>: \u201cKitsch is not about the thing observed but about the observer. It does not invite you to feel moved by the doll you are dressing so tenderly, but by yourself dressing the doll. All sentimentality is like this\u2014it redirects emotion from the object to the subject, so as to create a fantasy of emotion without the real cost of feeling it. The kitsch object encourages you to think, \u2018Look at me feeling this\u2014how nice I am and how lovable.\u2019\u2009\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/stronglang.wordpress.com\/2014\/12\/16\/great-moments-in-swearing-you-gotta-be-fuckin-kidding\/\" target=\"_blank\">Great moments in swearing<\/a>: an utterance in John Carpenter\u2019s <em>The Thing<\/em> helped define our sense of a treasured obscenity. \u201cThe <em>fuckin\u2019<\/em> in \u2018You gotta be fuckin\u2019 kidding\u2019 is surplus to compositional meaning but crucial to the moment and the encounter. Its trochee supplies essential force to the line\u2019s measured disbelief, extending Palmer\u2019s (and by extension the group\u2019s) appalled bewilderment at the boggling form of their alien enemy.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>A new book purports <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/graves-garbage-hard-life-archeologist\" target=\"_blank\">to bust the stereotypes behind archaeology<\/a>: \u201cthe work is often poorly paid, physically demanding, and prone to controversy \u2026 the unemployment rate in the field [is] at about fifty per cent.\u201d (This piece, to its great credit, mentions Indiana Jones zero times.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theamericanscholar.org\/habits-of-mind\/\" target=\"_blank\">The best defense for research<\/a>: \u201cIt\u2019s in the archive where one forms a scholarly self\u2014a self that, when all goes well, is intolerant of weak arguments and loose citation and all other forms of shoddy craftsmanship; a self that doesn\u2019t accept a thesis without asking what assumptions and evidence it rests on; a self that doesn\u2019t have a lot of patience with simpleminded formulas and knows an observation from an opinion and an opinion from an argument.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The origins of Times New Roman, the trustiest typeface of the PC era: \u201cTimes New Roman began as a challenge, when esteemed type designer Stanley Morison criticized London\u2019s newspaper The Times for being out-of-touch with modern typographical trends. 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