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  • In the old Soviet days, the Samizdat used to talk of ‘kitsch’ (not the arty-farty kind), a sort of gloying jelly you had to fumble with in dealing, day-to-day with the vile nomenclature foisting its mix of ludicrous ideology, lying targets and statistics, propaganda and vicious impersonal control on all and sundry.

    New Financial Year – Now We Can Arrest Again « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

  • It's actually a totally trendy wendy arty farty airy fairy liberal/leftie anti-patriarchal/feministical paper, but the people who comment on the cif section are just a bunch of Tories

    My take on the FTC guidelines for bloggers 2009

  • The ones they're keeping are the ones that benefit business, while cutting the arty-farty ones that cost very little and arguably earn money.

    Armando Iannucci: 'Now is not the time for a crap opposition' Stuart Jeffries 2010

  • Oh, and we may also need to take into account those arty-farty designers using Macs.

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Google Chrome OS 2009

  • Less historical than hysterical, "The Untitled Kartik Krishnan Project" is a movie-within-a-movie shot in frequently abstract black-and-white — "arty-farty," as one character describes her cinematic preference — about a lonely office worker's effort to make a short film with the help of a more established director (the film's actual director, Srinivas Sunderrajan).

    Kids Take Over the School Steve Dollar 2010

  • Bottom line, the new rules make your fellow passengers farty and crosslegged (ever try not going to the bathroom during the last part of a really long-haul international flight?), the flight attendants seemed to be just as annoyed about the meritless new rules as the passengers, and we were none the safer.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • S: STINK BOMBSYes, they are stink bombs, but no, they don't smell at all farty.

    The beauty bible Eva Wiseman 2010

  • In fact, they celebrate all genre fiction -- no arty farty literati elitism here.

    Navigating the current publishing debacle karenmiller 2010

  • You're right, it won't be over until the fat lady sings, but even that won't satisfy the liberal arty-farty literati.

    Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

  • You're right, it won't be over until the fat lady sings, but even that won't satisfy the liberal arty-farty literati.

    Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

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