Word: garish
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...beaming waitress, the same woman who took my order, brings the steaming hot food to our garish orange table within minutes. Many glasses of water and beer later, the curry is gone. Having successfully avoided eating any suspicious seafood, I am all the more grateful for the familiar green curry, which was cheaper and much spicier than its Harvard Square incarnations...
...operations officer, campaign manager Lee Atwater, a tactical gambit to keep his opponent off balance on the eve of the presidential debate. Earlier this month, the Bush armada had sailed unmolested into Boston harbor and excoriated Dukakis over its polluted waters. This time the Vice President stood in a garish Italian restaurant in East Boston, looked at the sea of blue uniforms and joked, "Who was it that said the police aren't there when you need them...
...hour days at the office, Baker exudes serenity. He is apt to crack jokes at his daily 7:30 a.m. staff meeting and has started a "most outrageous tie" competition, encouraging the driven and serious topsides of the campaign to try to outdo one another in flaunting garish neckwear...
When most non-Spanish speaking Americans hear the words Hispanic art, they think of the Chicano murals in Los Angeles in the '70s and early '80s, noble if garish campesinos brandishing their fists from the concrete walls of storm drains. In fact, some remarkably interesting artists were involved with the Chicano-mural movement. Among them were "Los Four" in Los Angeles: Carlos Almaraz, Gilbert Lujan, Frank Romero and Beto de la Rocha. But to suppose that this was the main form of Hispanic expression is rather like imagining that Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party is the chief work...
...Nothing to Declare is a memoir of her travels in Central America, which she explores in the tradition of truth through squalor, using a Mexican slum as a base camp. Despite occasional lapses into over- studied eloquence, she is a fascinating guide, with an eye for the brutal, the garish, the silly and bizarre. At a Mayan market in the Yucatan, Morris is tempted by giant beetles being sold as pets. "They were dressed as cowboys with small hats, boots on their legs, soldiers in camouflage, and women of the night, with long eyelashes and pink satiny skirts...