Used colloquially as a noun or adjective, highbrow is synonymous with intellectual; as an adjective, it also means elite, and generally carries a connotation of high culture. The word draws its metonymy from the pseudoscience of phrenology, and was originally simply a physical descriptor. "Highbrow" can be applied to music, implying most of the classical music tradition and literature, i.e. literary fiction and poetry; to films in the arthouse line; and to comedy that requires significant understanding of analogies or references to appreciate. The term highbrow is considered by some (with corresponding labels as 'middlebrow' 'lowbrow') as discriminatory or overly selective (Lawrence W. Levine, "Prologue", Highbrow/lowbrow: the emergence of cultural hierarchy in America, 1990:3; highbrow is currently distanced from the writer by quotation marks: "We thus focus on the consumption of two generally recognised 'highbrow' genres— - opera and classical" (Tak Wing Chan, Social Status and Cultural Consumption 2010:60). The first usage in print of highbrow was recorded in 1884. The term was popularized in 1902 by Will Irvin, a reporter for The Sun who adhered to the phrenological notion of more intelligent people having high foreheads. The opposite of highbrow is lowbrow, and between them is middlebrow, describing culture that is neither high nor low; as a usage, middlebrow is derogatory, as in Virginia Woolf's unsent letter to the New Statesman, written in the 1930s and published in The Death of the Moth and Other Essays (1942). According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word middlebrow first appeared in print in 1925, in Punch: "The BBC claims to have discovered a new type — 'the middlebrow'. It consists of people who are hoping that some day they will get used to the stuff that they ought to like". It was popularized by the American writer and poet Margaret Widdemer, whose essay "Message and Middlebrow" appeared in the Review of Literature in 1933. The three genres of fiction, as American readers approached them in the 1950s and as obscenity law differentially judged them, are the subject of Ruth Pirsig Wood, Lolita in Peyton Place: Highbrow, Middlebrow, and Lowbrow Novels, 1995.
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In this Japanese anime series, we follow a cute (if rather dysfunctional and hyperactive) robot and his many adventures with his robot and children pals. Meanwhile, the diabolical megalomaniac robot inventor Highbrow wants to take advantage of Robotchi and his inventor, Dr. Deco, so he and his female cohorts, could have the world all to themselves. But it won't be so easy, since Robotchi, Deco and their pals have tricks of their own up their sleeves.
Keywords: anime, character-name-in-title, gadget, hallucination, megalomaniac, picnic, racing, robot, sergeant, slapstick
[from the English Dub]::Horton the Third: Gah! Dirty Russians! Dirty Americans!::Suya: Well now he's offended everybody!
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Musical comedy star Jimmy Leighter wants to get away from show biz and his leading lady Winnie Clark, so he joins the Army. There he gets the order to put on a show, Winnie Clark appears in a camp show, hears about his task and offers him his help. He thinks, she does it for her publicity only, so he doesn't want to know anything about this, till he finds out, that she has no such intentions.
Keywords: based-on-play, big-band, sergeant
THE KHAKI-GO-WACKIEST MUSICAL SHOW OF 'EM ALL! (original poster-Allcaps)
HI,LO, JACK AND THE DAME - Singing team of the FRED ALLEN RADIO SHOW! (original poster)
JUDY CLARK AND THE SOLID SENDERS -The Hottest Songsters In Swing! (original poster)
JEEPS! Look what's coming
THE KHAKI-GO-WAACY MUSICAL!
Smiles and Miles of Entertainment!
LOVE...TRAPPED IN THE WEB OF THE LAW! (original lobby card-all caps)