And if her two-generations-removed repertory seems a peculiar acquired taste for mass consumption, you haven't tried Starbucks' caffe latte.
America is a formidable machine for moviemaking, with all the fuel it needs, but the kinds of story that it now chooses to tell of itself, and the appetite for such nourishment — the taste for mass public shows, that is, rather than unhypnotic home entertainment, which you can snap out of when you need a beer — may be shrinking beyond recall.
Dupont mixes pop art's taste for mass-produced symbols with abstract expressionism's preference for spontaneity.
A taste for mass-mediated kinds of expression informs the work of many of today's fine artists, including the Los Angeles-based painter Ed Ruscha, whose pop-style drawings are the subject of a retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, (800) 944-8009.
After upending the home design market with his democratizing strategy of good taste for the masses, the Restoration Hardware guru Gary Friedman is now betting he can do the same in the rarefied world of art.
The question had changed to "When are you going to leave?" or "Why are you still here?" For the first time, we had a taste of mass dispersion.
Letting new providers in also attracts people who are interested in education and have a talent for organisation, but no taste for bureaucracy.A mass of data shows that both profit and not-for-profit innovations can work.
Though the movie's producer, Jerry Bruckheimer, has a shrewd eye for mass taste, this one proved dead on arrival at the box office.
It's just that in modern Britain, where the newspapers are edited by ex-music writers and the TV stations run by recent redbrick graduates, the underground is what's left over after the mainstream's sucked out anything that is deemed to possess the right kind of politics, morality, taste and cultural value for mass middle-class audiences.
Teenage tastes set the tone for mass culture from hip-hop to South Park, and teenage bodies are used to sell cars, clothes and the promise of perpetual youth to people old enough to be the models' parents.
When Fox's short-lived television series "Action!," bombed out last year, its self-consciously profane and gleefully malevolent portrait of the Hollywood producer Peter Dragon Jay Mohrr) was deemed too insider and too nasty for mass tastes.
