Popular Culture
The satirical TV puppet show Spitting Image portrayed Burnet as a cringing, fawning royalist ("lick, lick, smarm, smarm"), forever trying to suck up to the nearest available member of the Royal Family. The satirical magazine Private Eye referred to him as "Arslicker Burnet".
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“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
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“Popular culture entered my life as Shirley Temple, who was exactly my age and wrote a letter in the newspapers telling how her mother fixed spinach for her, with lots of butter.... I was impressed by Shirley Temple as a little girl my age who had power: she could write a piece for the newspapers and have it printed in her own handwriting.”
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