Word: garish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...side of Artist Bacon's work was revealed in her increasingly Daumier-like preoccupation with the seamier side of life. Like Honore Daumier, with whose work hers has often been compared, Peggy Bacon has descended the social ladder to portray Manhattan's grimmest alleys, its courtrooms, bars, garish streets at night, garbage cans crawling with kittens, drunks at home the morning-after. Result: her art is more inclusive and more subtle without becoming less satiric...
This novelized autobiography is a confused, cynical, sharply intelligent scenario of a young man's struggle to tie himself to a set of beliefs with which he can live at peace. It is also a somewhat garish finger-painting of the genesis of a New Dealer...
...been his idea for Philippine naval defense), calmly waiting at the rendezvous for the planes from Australia, which were too few and almost too late. It is the picture of a hero who is brilliant, courageous, a great leader of soldiers, but also a little overambitious, a little garish, a little rhetorical...
...Home Guard had not always been respectable. It rose like a garish, un-British emanation from the bomb rubble of 1940's blitz. In those days its members practiced slitting throats with cheese cutters on gloomy Sunday mornings, reached out eager hands for nonexistent tommy guns, concocted tin-can explosives in the basement and took a desperate delight in the macabre techniques of Spanish Civil War guerrillas. But by last week the Home Guard had dressed ranks and counted off: on its second birthday, King George VI himself, the trade-mark of British character, became the Home Guard...
...brilliance that audiences have become accustomed to in such musicals as "DuBarry," "Lady in the Dark," and "Sons o' Fun." The settings by Harry Horner, especially in the dream scenes, are far below his best work in "Lady in the Dark," while Irene Sharaff's costumes border on the garish. The story itself is unable to hold the show together and the net result is a mixture of good little bits scattered through an evening of mediocre entertainment. Particularly fine is the end of the show when Eddie Cantor steps out in blackface to render such old favorites...