Word: garish
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...libretto's demands are preposterous enough: the theme derives from the ethics and rituals of Freemasonry as practiced in ancient Egypt. But Chagall's temple scenes, peopled with a host of priests clothed in garish colors, came off as something resembling a psychedelic initiation rite at the local Masonic temple...
...outdoorsman's hunting ground it may be, but L. L. Bean, Inc. is also an efficiency expert's nightmare. It stashes incoming mail in shirt boxes. Once it lost $125,000 in business when a list of 40,000 would-be customers was mistakenly destroyed. Under a garish, multicolored letterhead, its owner once answered a formal appointment request by advising "I am personally away more or less." When he died of a heart ailment during a Florida vacation last week at 94, L. L. (for Leon Leonwood) Bean left a $4,000,000-a-year backwoods bonanza that...
Richard Lindner's art comes on with the blaring oompah of a brass band. His subject is people-notably women. They are overripe nymphets whose hearts belong to Dada. Emblazoned in garish circus colors, more powerful than comic-book Supermen, his colossal caricatures loom like contemporary Baals...
Pasty-faced and crater-eyed, behind his boldly rouged cheeks, the lone figure onstage when the footlights go up on Broadway's hit musical, Cabaret, is a garish apparition indeed. He twists his scarlet mouth into an obsequious leer as he whines the lyrics of Willkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome. The character has no name, no dialogue. But in Joel Grey's insinuating performance, the sleazy, empty-souled, fanny-grabbing emcee of Berlin's Kit Kat Klub is not only the glue that holds the musical together but also the embodiment of a nation's depravity during...
...Bishop Pike's courage is magnificent, but my feelings about him are ambivalent. He seems to lack discipline. Are his garish slogans and slick phrases really necessary? They seem only to arouse the anger of the more dogmatic members of the church. The Episcopal Church is remarkable for its liberal thought, and surely is not offended by Pike's questioning, but only by his method of questioning. He has shown himself capable of deeo reflection and perceptive expression. Discipline rightly used will not diminish his message, but will polish and refine it into the harmonizing and reforming force...