Popular Culture
- Betty Boop collectibles features the skirt-blowing pose from The Seven Year Itch
- Mattel's Barbie as Marilyn "Hollywood Collections" line (1997), and the "Timeless Treasures" Monroe line (2002)
- Marian McKnight aped Monroe in the talent portion of the 1957 Miss America pageant.
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Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:
“The lowest form of popular culture—lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people’s lives—has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.”
—Carl Bernstein (b. 1944)
“And all the popular statesmen say
That purity built up the State
And after kept it from decay;
Admonish us to cling to that
And let all base ambition be,
For intellect would make us proud....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.”
—Karl Kraus (1874–1936)