kitschy, recycling raise risks, all the rage

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Unheilig: From the crypt to Olympus

Unheilig started off in the gloom of Gothic pop and until recently, seemed
destined to remain a niche group. But since lead vocalist and artist "der
Graf" opened himself up to mainstream pop, he is all the rage.

 

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It’s tempting to describe those as a McTribute to Jacobsen because the elegant shapes of his chairs have been distorted into kitschy new forms that mock the originals, and add another crime against design to the McDonald’s rap sheet.




Pro chefs, kitchenware geeks and Japanese home cooks know they'll find just about everything they'll ever need in Kappabashi, Tokyo's 'kitchen town'. For the FT's Christopher Grimes, buying a new kitchen knife brings on 'a sensation very close to lust'.



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The kitsch world of Kappabashi, Tokyo’s ‘kitchen town’
A kilometre of shops where chefs and cookware geeks come to buy k



 all the rage
Also, all the thing. The current or latest fashion, with the implication that it will be short-lived, as in In the 1940s the lindy-hop was all the rage. The use of rage reflects the transfer of an angry passion to an enthusiastic one; thing is vaguer. [Late 1700s] These terms are heard less often today than the synonym the thing.

kitsch
(kĭch)
n.

1. Sentimentality or vulgar, often pretentious bad taste, especially in the arts: "When money tries to buy beauty it tends to purchase a kind of courteous kitsch" (William H. Gass).
2. An example or examples of kitsch.

adj.
Of, being, or characterized by kitsch: "The kitsch kitchen ... has aqua-and-white gingham curtains and rubber duck-yellow walls painted in a fried-egg motif" (Suzanne Cassidy).

[German, probably of dialectal origin.]

kitschify kitsch'i·fy' v.
kitschy kitsch'y adj.

kinky, Oekotest（生態試驗）Sausage (Wurst)

Recession Puts a Kink in Operation That Uses Locks to Soak Up Oil Spills The recession is crimping the business of a San Francisco nonprofit that recycles human hair into mats that are used to clean up oil spills. rècýcle[rè・cýcle]   レベル：大学入試程度 [動](他) 1 〈廃物を〉再生利用する recycled paper 再生紙. 2 …を循環処理［使用］する；…を再循環させる, 還流させる. rè・cýcling [名]リサイクリング. rè・cýcler, rè・cý・clist [名]

Koons' entire oeuvre to date, at a decidely unKoonsian price From kinky to kitsch via conceptual, Jeff Koons’ art is anything but conformist.