Word: garish
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...this white girl walking with him." Though Slater denies he is a racist -- "I'm white and I'm proud" -- he has been linked directly to antiblack and anti-Semitic literature passed out in local high schools by supporters. His true beliefs are evident in the garish tattoo beneath his white shirt and tie. It features a montage of his heroes, including Hitler, Mussolini and Charles Manson...
There are good things for people in the Square to be against. Litter, garish advertising and lousy architecture, for instance. But McDonald's is a red herring in all three cases...
...been ascribed to Rembrandt, and they cannot all be by him. The reductionists' ax of the Rembrandt Research Project has fallen on paintings that no one with half an eye, after seeing this show, could go back to thinking of as Rembrandts: How did the light, high-colored, almost garish Feast of Esther by Jan Lievens, or the finicky execution of Gerrit Dou, ever get mistaken...
...consumption. For good measure, the audience is favored with a gratuitous glimpse of the Aborigine as a Noble Savage, revealed in appropriately lyrical phraseology: "A giant canoe drifts on the sea, clouds billowing from upright oars. This is a dream which has lost its way." Despite such instances of garish scriptwriting, Our Country's Good succeeds in being a masterpiece of realism...
...Square outsiders, it's that pink fortress-like building with the garish red neon sign along Mass Ave. Ask those who go there, and they will tell you it is the ultimate dining experience...