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• n  merchandise that is shoddy or inferior

• Under Aubrey, MGM churned out profitable, medium-budget schlock like Skyjacked and Black Belly of the Tarantula; directors often charged him with philistine meddling, and he .
• Some of them make new movies as homages to the seminal schlock of the 1950s.
• Just how Cats, the most successful musical in Broadway history (and an adventurous one in its day) has come to be a synonym for mass-audience schlock is the subject for another day.

• shlock
• dreck

News & Articles

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• Back to reality as Mets, Marcum fall to Braves
  ATLANTA — We now return you to your regularly scheduled schlock. Super Tuesday was everything the Mets could have wanted, with Matt Harvey and Zack Wheeler dominating the Braves in a doubleheader sweep, but then came last night and an almost inevitable crash to earth. Shaun Marcum disintegrated in the middle...
  June 20, 2013 - New York Post
• “Z” is Grade-A Fun
  Brad Pitt brings leads the battle against a worldwide zombie rampage in World War Z It’s easy to dismiss zombie movies as no-brainer schlock in which mass numbers of the undead seek out human brains for sustenance, while said humans…
  June 20, 2013 - Inland Empire Weekly
• Marcum falls to 0-9 as Mets lose to Braves
  ATLANTA — We now return you to your regularly scheduled schlock. Super Tuesday was everything the Mets could have wanted, with Matt Harvey and Zack Wheeler dominating the Braves in a doubleheader sweep, but then came Wednesday and the almost inevitable crash to earth. Shaun Marcum disintegrated in the middle innings...
  June 19, 2013 - New York Post

Quotes

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• Scott Weiland in Billboard
  And though Weiland told Billboard.com last year he intended to weave an overall concept throughout the album, he has since "thrown that idea out the window. In my opinion, there are so many schlock concept albums that have come out in the past...
• Daniel Benjamin in Media Matters for America
  Benjamin wrote: "Werwolf [Werewolf] tales have been a favorite of schlock novels, but the reality bore no resemblance to Iraq today."
• Michelle Malkin in DigitalJournal.com
  Jan. 20 has turned into a schlock inauguration, (where) every last moocher has come to cash in on Obama,Malkin said.