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A report highlighted on the front page of last Thursday's WP found that children in immigrant families tend to be healthier than those of U.S.-born parents, but that their health deteriorates the longer they live here.
It is likely that one's taste deteriorates under the continuous barrage of vulgarity: many who today admire the dadaists, cubists, surrealists, hard-edge realists, nonobjective and abstract artists would have reviled them, along with a significant percentage of the population, had they been dalive when their paintings first appeared, just as staid, conservative critics condemned the impressionists and advocates of other nouvelles vagues . Is it that we gradually become accustomed to what we first perceive as trash--as vulgarity--and become inured to it, or that we come to understand and, if not enamored of it, at least tolerate it as a legitimate form of expression?
The aesthetic explanation is that critics see so many bad movies that their taste deteriorates.