Word: garish
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...notable departure from big fair tradition that was planned is the absence of a midway, with its cooch dancers, catchpenny games and garish gadgetry. Instead, there are more religious pavilions than any other U.S. world's fair has ever known. The 1939 fair had only a single Temple of Religion; organized faith has taken better advantage of its rent-free opportunities in 1964 with numerous exhibits and no fewer than eight buildings...
...part the fair is Mainstreet cum Madison Avenue out of control, a veritable phantasmagoria of garish commercialism. But even the blatantly tawdy has its fascination. So does the sideshow atmosphere of a Ford convertible ride to Walt Disney's dinosaur-land and "Space City," an "audio-animatronic" Abe Lincoln, and a Ferris Wheel disguised as a giant tire...
...Sphinx. Each personage-a hulking pro football player, symmetrical in size and numeration, or Thiebaud's wife posing as a bather with a double-dip strawberry ice-cream cone-juts forward like a sculptured relief from a general porcelain-white background. The whiteness helps isolate the image; the garish fluorescent lighting that commercialism loves bathes everything in its frigid glare. Thiebaud makes long, curling highlights out of polychromatic contours that do not exist outside...
...setting of his current production, John Gielgud claims only the virtue of unobtrusiveness. The point of it, he says, is to have the play "unencumbered by an elaborate reconstruction of any historical period." The cast appears mostly in "rehearsal clothes"--slacks and sweaters, suits, and in one case, a garish red vest...
...suburbs are interminable wastelands dotted with millions of monotonous little houses, on monotonous little lots and criss-crossed by highways lined with billboards, jazzed-up diners, drive-In movies, beflagged gas stations and garish motels...