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Nearly 1000 people turned out earlier on Mass Ave to cheer for Streep during a parade held in her honor. A dozen Pudding cast members, costumed as women in outlandish dresses, garish wigs and layers of heavy make-up, escorted Streep to a waiting convertible when she first arrived at Quincy Square...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Streep Honored as Woman of the Year | 2/14/1980 | See Source »

Each Olympics is an immense and garish parade of nationalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Boycott That Might Rescue the Games | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

During most of his nine terms in the House, California Congressman Charles Wilson, 62, was best known not for his legislative record (meager) nor for his oratorical skills (weak) but for his fondness for occasionally dressing like a race track tout (garish plaid suit, green and black loafers, pearl and diamond stickpin). That is, until 1978, when Wilson gained national headlines for his part in the "Koreagate" scandal. The House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct found Wilson guilty of lying to conceal the fact that he had received an illegal cash gift of $1,000 from Tongsun Park...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Charlie's Woes | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

...modernization, and they have tried to use their staggering and sudden wealth to buy the machines of progress without the devils that often inhabit them. Conservative Saudi leaders, for example, a pursue a selective strategy regarding the technological riches of the West: they seek to modernize without the garish libertine free-for-all that Western secular individualism has promoted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Islam Against the West? | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

...featuring "Blog," a rare nectar imported to Holiday Inns and Sheratons across Nielsen-land by the viciously mercantilistic spice barons of Aldebaron IV. And whenever the fans met (for ten solar cycles), they gathered on weekends in huddled masses in dimly-lit hotel corridors. partying, discussing, earnestly analyzing, wearing garish buttons and proclaiming their bizarre beliefs before wearied maids, bellhops and addled television producers. And later they went home and cranked out massive tomes on "The Societal Implications of the Vulcan Ethic." Nightly, or biweekly, or weekly, they sat in front of their tubes staring transfixed at the images...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: Cheap Trek? | 12/14/1979 | See Source »

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