Word: garish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...retrospective presents examples from nine separate projects worked on, often simultaneously, by Norfleet between 1974 and 1994. The photographs range from black and white architecture to 20x24 Polaroids of manipulated Kewpie dolls in garish colors. But what brings these images together is the photographer's astutely anthropological eye, which uses the camera to both dissect and direct human and animal categorization...
...City is at its best in its subtler moments. During Brackett's interview, for example, a folksy guitar strums gently in the background as Baily plies millions of viewers with his simple charm. When Brackett cuts abruptly to a commercial, both guitar and Baily are unceremoniously replaced with a garish sneaker advertisement. The spell is suddenly broken and the effect is undeniable: we realize we've been played, effortlessly manipulated by a half-wit and a cheesy soundtrack...
...year-old bachelor, a former French air-force officer and an amateur pilot, was a big teddy bear who brought flowers for the bar's regulars but otherwise left them alone. Josie, the bartender, knew him well. "He never drank much," she says, leaning on the bar under a garish mural of nude women. "I've known him for 20 years. He was a nice guy, gentle. He'd drink Coke, Perrier, maybe a beer." Josie emphatically denies Paul was an alcoholic and says he appeared perfectly normal that night. "If he'd been a drunk, we would have known...
...referee, keeping the stars fighting without biting. Wright, like Maureen, is game for any outsize challenge, but her bantam desperation sounds shrill; at times she is overrun by the wild gestures that seize Maureen. Travolta, though, balances nicely on a seesaw of caring and exasperation; and Penn has every garish shade of Eddie in his palette. He gets the pain, charm and drive, the stumbling humor of a guy whose only religion is the woman who betrayed him. He turns a jerk into a heroic figure: St. Doofus...
...most obvious move, which they explored, would have been to sell off Graceland; one potential buyer, the city of Memphis, did a feasibility study on using Graceland as a tourist attraction and concluded that interest in Elvis had waned and that no one would pay to see the garish, crimson shag-carpeted house of a has-been rock star. Now Priscilla reversed herself, acting, she says, on faith as well as a sentimental attachment to what had been, after all, her nuptial home. While their bankers looked on aghast, she and Soden blew the last of the estate's cash...