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Regina Spektor: Begin to Hope

Todd L. Burns, Stylus, 21 July 2006

Kitsch is a tough one, innit? Author Modris Eksteins points out that it "replaces ethics with aesthetics." Next sentence? "Kitsch is the mask of death." Ouch. 'Course he was busy describing the Nazis at the time.

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