Word: garish
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...Mexico City's garish Cine Metropolitan, some thousand delegates of the official Party of the Mexican Revolution (P.R.M.) gathered in orderly array: blue-shirted, white-trousered campesinos (farm workers) on the right, professional men in the center, obreros (industrial workers) on the left. Eleven non-voting delegates from Los Angeles' big Mexican colony sat with them...
...Marsden Hartley's garish Three Friends, which showed Christ flanked by a hairy prize fighter and a clown. (Hartley, in a poem he wrote about it, says that the athlete and the clown had suffered almost as much as Christ...
Today we have eight TIME & LIFE men sending us daily reports from conquered Nippon. We have opened an office on the famous (and garish) Ginza, complete with two reception rooms the last tenant used for ceremonial tea drinking...
With $5,000 he had saved, he formed the North American Pharmacal Co. (drug products) in Chicago. Three years later he prospected a new field: the small-town drugstore. He dazzled the outlanders of Sterling, Ill. with a garish, big-city drugstore, complete with huge drug and cosmetic departments, a well-stocked food section. It was such a hit that he moved into five other towns, now has a chain of 54 stores in five states (Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Iowa and Minnesota...
...likable comedy; William Gaxton's performance, as Dr. Haymes's worried father, is a fine, quiet piece of backstage sentimentalism. The big production numbers (hung mainly on the idea that Gaxton, as Ze Chef, marshalls forth young women dressed to represent condiments and fancy desserts) are heavy, garish, good-humored and preposterous...