In short, camp mocks bad taste; kitsch exploits it. Camp arouses our sense of the ridiculous and we respond with amused tolerance.... When we see Bette Davis or Ruth Gordon, fine if sometimes flamboyant performers, relax their self-discipline and overextend their acting technique in a superfluity of ineffective gestures--finger-twitching and hip-switching, hand-rubbing or hip-protruding--we label the sum total as camp. Mae West, whose nasally provocative delivery, eye-rolling, lip-pursing, and pelvic tics parody the conventional invitation to dalliance, is never out of control and is camp, pure and simple.... Camp was also the stock-in-trade of Carmen Miranda, whose retina-searing Technicolor get-ups, skyscraper headdresses bearing a season's fruit harvest, clomping platform shoes and garbled English projected in a voice that could be heard on Mars all came together beautifully in her campy personification of Exaggeration. Had we been blessed with the Brazilian Bombshell's own blazing interpretation of Joan of Arc, the grotesque, if fascinating, result would surely have been kitsch.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There was no speculation so promising, or at the same time so praisworthy, as the United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muffin and Crum...pet Baking and Punctual Delivery Company.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interes...ted in the subject, one could not help being pleased with the discourse; a pleasure of much the same kind with that received from an excellent piece of music. This is an advantage itinerant preachers have over those who are stationary, as the latter can not well improve their delivery of a sermon by so many rehearsals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a man who exists as one of the most popular objects of leadership, legislation, and quasi-literature in the history of al...l men.... This man, that object of attention, attack, and vast activity, cannot make himself be heard, let alone to understood. He has never been listened to.... That man is Black and alive in white America where the media of communication do not allow the delivery of his own voice, his own desires, his own rage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Anyone who has breast-fed knows two things for sure: The baby wants to be fed at the most inopportune times, in the most inopportu...ne places, and the baby will prevail.... And so the baby should, and the mom, too. Sometimes a breast is a sexual object, and sometimes it's a food delivery system, and one need not preclude nor color the other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere in which individual differences are appreciated, love is shown openly, mistak...es are used for learning, communication is open, rules are flexible, responsibility (matching promise with delivery)is modeled and honesty is practiced--the kind of atmosphere found in a nurturing family.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
From now on, I think it is safe to predict, neither the Democratic nor the Republican Party will ever nominate for President a can...didate without good looks, stage presence, theatrical delivery, and a sense of timing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »