Word: garish
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...America's Cup, yachting's great and garish grail, is a tumorous tureen no handsomer than a camel. In 1983 the news was not only that it was lost but that it was losable. A 132-year winning streak, the longest in all sport, was broken over the ample shoulders of San Diego Skipper Dennis Conner, the best and unlikeliest sailor in the world. He means to win it back this week...
...fraternity of international arms dealers, this Janus-like profile does not make Ghorbanifar extraordinary. That shadowy netherworld teems with other characters who might seem too garish for a remake of The Maltese Falcon. Among them: Sarkis Soghanalian, a 300-lb. Turkish-born Lebanese citizen living in Miami who specializes these days in selling helicopters to Iraq and is said to receive jars of severed human ears from clients; and Sam Cummings, a wisecracking American-born British subject operating out of Alexandria, Va., who is unabashedly -- though so far unsuccessfully -- negotiating to peddle on the world market some $5 billion worth...
...English and his son played "Ob-la-di, ob-la-da" on the guitar. They took us into town to the festival that was going on that night. We expected another pwe, but instead it was a huge carnival with a ferris wheel, Kung Fu movies blaring, and enormous garish posters everywhere--so much for quaint village life...
...first, George and Simone hate each other. Simone, trying to rise above her streetwalker past, resents George's cheapness, the garish clothes he buys to please her, the Bloody Marys that he drinks waiting for her in fancy hotels. Hoskins, an incredibly natural blend of realistic and romantic, who cannot help but see her for what she is, nevertheless tries to protect her and himself from recognizing this reality...
Since Jean-Charles de Castelbajac and Andre Courreges are more or less avant-garde, one might be thankful that the offerings departed from their current fascination with four-sleeved sweaters or garish prints. Castelbajac may in fact have disappointed those who longed for something more controversial. His chasubles are translucent to splash bright colors on the white albs underneath, evoking the stained-glass windows of his boyhood memory. ("God was light," he recalls.) The outsize cross symbols are certainly traditional enough, inspired as they were by clothing that St. Louis wore during the Seventh Crusade. More outre, Courreges offered...