In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over.
Explicit material is available in a variety of forums - from popular music to television to the Internet.
I'm thinking about entering a Marilyn Manson costume contest to see if I lose.
What is more beautiful than a sea of water with a number of white-winged boats skirting its surface? Poetry and beauty contesting with the wind and the waves!
The intimate contest for self-command never ends, and lifetime happiness requires finding the right balance between present impulses and future well-being.
In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.
Ninety-five percent of the time when I run a contest I've purchased the giveaway prizes with advertising money.
For forms of Government let fools contest. Whate'er is best administered is best.
I believe the 'Jeopardy!' test is more difficult than being a contestant on the program.
I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music.
My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid.
All that is popular is not always right. All that is right is also not always popular. Somewhere in between, lies all that is real!
I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.
The phrase ‘popular science’ has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.
Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy.
The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.
Avoiding maturity is, for many men, not just a cute hobby, but a life's work - often handsomely rewarded in the infantile popular culture of the West.
Hollywood is just like high school: The popular people love the other popular people. And the thing is, some people aren't nice. Or they are nice, but only to your face, not elsewhere.
With his passing, Dick Clark deserves to take his place at the top in the pantheon of popular culture icons.
