Word: garish
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...Toulouse-Lautrec's old haunts seem like a meeting of mah-jongg players. Ben Johnson's voluptuaries are in the pink, Mel Ramos trots out jungle queens in tiger-skin bikinis, Marjorie Strider shows paintings that project into the 36-Dimension, and Herb Hazelton delights in garish girdles from the Sears, Roebuck catalogue. Andy Warhol's Blue Girlie (9 ft. by 6 ft.) has a room all to herself, not out of modesty but because she only comes out in ultraviolet light. Through...
...cinema, a strong room large enough to hold all the gold in Africa, and a kitchen big enough to prepare all the fufu (Liberia's national dish, a stew based on the cassava plant) that anyone could eat. Tubman's new home combines the comfort of a garish four-star hotel with the appearance of a department store the week before Christmas...
...dinner jacket is the keystone of the entire formal wardrobe. It comes in black and all sorts of other colors and can be worn with trousers that do not match. Although the range of colors is large--including madras, plaids, and usually garish solids--it is best to stick to black. In fact, one black dinner jacket should be enough to take you through all the social thickets you may decently expect to encounter...
Ensor sought omens of a different sort in the world he knew. He detested the mob for its human hebetude. Every year, Ostend had a carnival whose revelers, it seemed to him, lost their sense of identity behind their garish masks. Without straying far from his family's souvenir shop, Ensor detailed the seven deadly sins in modern dress, and added a few of his own observation. He often showed Christ not as an object of adoration but as an unmasked redeemer swamped in a sea of masquerade...
...through the first-floor rooms, snipping swatches from the upholstery as souvenirs. On the eve of Lincoln's second inauguration, his bodyguard observed that the public parlors looked "as if a regiment of rebel troops had been quartered there-with permission to forage." Ulysses S. Grant redecorated in garish Mississippi Riverboat Victorian, with a great profusion of potted palms and gaslight globes...