References in Popular Culture
- In the movie, Annie Hall, Los Angeles producer Tony Lacy (played by Native New Yorker Paul Simon) tempts the title character with offers of stardom, inducing her to relocate from New York to Los Angeles, or "Munchkinland", as her boyfriend, Alvy Singer (played by Woody Allen), describes it.
- Conducting an Internet search of "munchkin land" yields numerous references to business, such as child care centers, schools, and clothing stores, that cater to children.
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Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:
“Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them.”
—Charles James Fox (1749–1806)
“Anthropologists have found that around the world whatever is considered “men’s work” is almost universally given higher status than “women’s work.” If in one culture it is men who build houses and women who make baskets, then that culture will see house-building as more important. In another culture, perhaps right next door, the reverse may be true, and basket- weaving will have higher social status than house-building.”
—Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen. Excerpted from, Gender Grace: Love, Work, and Parenting in a Changing World (1990)