Word: garish
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...round the clock. Some moviehouses close their doors only four hours out of 24. Many of the sidewalk food stands never shut up shop, and the blocks on either side of Times Square offer a pungent cosmopolitan tour of cheap cookery-hot dogs, pizzas, pastrami, chow mein, hamburgers, tacos. Garish neon lights stare down on cameras, transistor radios and the other gadgetry that will soon be bought by gullible visitors or grace the lockers of soldiers and sailors who have been on leave in New York. Record stores blare their wares onto the street while teen-agers flip through album...
...dusty through streets of commuters (resentful) and cripples (dying), or risk ultimate trip (subterranean) and possible brain damage. I choose the underground; I must admit I generally enjoy the subways here (not Boston's sterile parody), in much the same way I might enjoy a roller coaster, a truly garish wedding, or a Fellini movie...
...regrettably ordinary, so a visit isn't like walking through an art museum which in its modesty could only exhibit two Picassos, half a dozen Klees, a Raphael, a Degas, and a Breughel, scattered among thirty rooms. In fact, I was becoming impatient as I looked at that garish wave, and demanded that Huntley lead me to the whales. So he pointed out the picture of a breaching blue whale...
...says fuck you. Take a look, not only because it is the most graphic illustration of everything that The Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger ends up being about, but also because, by the end of the book -by the time Cecil Brown has led you through the garish circus of lies, illusions, and rip offs that go reeling through the world of his characters - it will be good to have a "message" that definite and unequivocal to hang on to. Fuck you. And you. And you. And you. In this book, the words are not meant...
...their rulers. Ceremony does explain. Legend, myth, and self-deception-the pomp of government-"siphon off dangerous emotions" and screen politics from public view. Cabinets, parliaments, and monarchy lacked the substance of power. Crossman wished to strip government of the Noble Lie and confront his audience with the garish clanking of the party machine. He may even have wished to demonstrate the drawbacks of the British system to Anglophile political scientists. But, as the Godkin series proceeded, he showed much affection for that "efficient secret" and an alarming distaste for constitutional limits on executive power...