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Greenpeace's six-month campaign features a series of garish Day-Glo-red posters. The signs on the northbound side of the highway depict a worker in a protective suit and gas mask, and the southbound versions show an exploding nuclear bomb. Until Greenpeace slapped its posters on the billboards, they had been blank for two years as a result of a successful boycott against local merchants who advertised on them. "It's not clear whether Greenpeace should be labeled environmental nitwits or environmental traitors," groused Tom Lustig, an attorney for the anti-billboard group. Countered Jason Salzman, a Greenpeace...
...GARISH REPUBLICAN FUNDRAISER luncheon a couple of weeks after the primaries, U.S. Senate hopeful Jim Rappaport was hard at work...
During the late afternoon of April 3, a small private plane landed at El Paso International Airport and disgorged a garish passenger, accompanied by three grim-faced men. Clad in a sports shirt, country-club-plaid slacks and loafers, the 6-ft. 1-in., 310-lb. Mexican sauntered over to a group of men waiting on the tarmac, smiled as if he were collecting a golf trophy and proffered his hand. "I am Dr. Humberto Alvarez Machain," he announced. "I know who you are," snapped special agent Hector Berrellez of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. "You have the right...
...wonder is that he can avoid cheap, garish dyes in an inexpensive line. In his current collection, prices run from $75 to $300 apiece, and he is about to launch a cheaper one called But Gordon. He got the idea for his label from the human traffic that courses through his office. "But Gordon, I want something new," he mimics. "But Gordon, can't you deliver sooner? But Gordon, I want it all." He sees the But Gordon line as his own Gap store, a place where the clothes are so cheap "I feel I can go in there...
...imagination go wild with the costumes for both eras. The Claflin brothers, for instance, sport powder-blue polyester pants suits with collars that reach the shoulders and mustard-yellow hip-hugging bell-bottoms with hideous shirts open to the waste. All the '70s outfits are finished off with perfectly garish accessories and amazingly high and ugly platform shoes (including an incredible pair of ruby platform sandals for Belle-turned-Dorothy...