Popular Culture
In the "Bad Breaks" episode (season 2, episode 13) of the US TV series Burn Notice, protagonist Michael Westen uses the term "Operation Quicksilver" to indicate to his friend Sam that in order to overcome a bank robber without injuring any hostages, Sam must convince the bank robber that he is a powerful, dangerous man who owns the bank and who will maim and torture anyone involved in the robbery.
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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)
“O, popular applause! what heart of man
Is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?”
—William Cowper (1731–1800)
“A culture may be conceived as a network of beliefs and purposes in which any string in the net pulls and is pulled by the others, thus perpetually changing the configuration of the whole. If the cultural element called morals takes on a new shape, we must ask what other strings have pulled it out of line. It cannot be one solitary string, nor even the strings nearby, for the network is three-dimensional at least.”
—Jacques Barzun (b. 1907)