In Popular Culture
- Periwinkle blue is the color for esophageal and stomach cancer awareness ribbons. It is also the color for pulmonary hypertension awareness ribbons.
- Hermione Granger's dress in the fourth Harry Potter book is periwinkle. This was changed to hot pink in the movie.
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“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)
“Nobody seriously questions the principle that it is the function of mass culture to maintain public morale, and certainly nobody in the mass audience objects to having his morale maintained.”
—Robert Warshow (1917–1955)