Titlebook: Readings In Popular Culture; Trivial Pursuits? Gary Day Book 1990 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1990 cultu

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Hampton Court Revisited: A Re-evaluation of the Consumer,the Palace is a peripheral one, its current survival based on the assumption that it functions as an idiosyncratic quirk in contrast to the organised sedentary of the main gardens. However, in one important sense the maze, or more exactly the idea of the maze, signifies at a cultural level; and this

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,Henry’s Paperweight: The Banks and TV Advertising,capitalism? The easy answer is none, they have no place and no place can be made for them in a non-society where each member stands or fails by his or her own efforts. So perhaps it should be a surprise to see just those homeless. and the bootless. parade across the television screen promoting a ban

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Recipes for Success, our environment. If somebody says they are going to have an aperitif we know they are going to have a certain kind of drink as a prelude to a meal. The use of the word ‘aperitif’ and the actual drink they choose, be it whisky, sherry or white wine and cassis, further reveals something of their life

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Christmas: Celebrating the Humbug,re the essential ingredients in the fermentation of revolutionary fervour, as if, somehow, it was counterrevolutionary to laugh. Such activities that might lighten the load and make living more bearable are viewed with suspicion and more than an element of disdain. George Orwell for one, in his trea

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War Toys, toy industry trades in wishes and desires. The front cover photograph features a Christmas morning scene with tree and presents, bathed in golden light, that is gazed at from the shadows in the doorway by a boy and a girl with their backs to the camera. The presents themselves are not wrapped up as

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