Word: garished
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...gave to show business a drive and mettlesomeness (as both producer and director) that acted like ozone, even if at times they were only shots of dope. In addition to being good shows, Broadway and The Front Page set a trend in colorful, hard-hitting entertainment; they caught the garish, profane, melodramatic spirit...
...furniture design fell on its ugliest days. Had the United States Hotel been furnished 20 years sooner it would have caught the end of the gracious early-Victorian style-and its contents would have brought untold sums last week. As it was, few collectors and decorators wanted the garish brocades and machine-carved chair-and-sofa sets on the auction block. Records showed that most of this fusty flotsam had come from Manhattan's great A. T. Stewart department store, predecessor to John Wanamaker's. But no records showed who had designed the pieces or the hotel itself...
...there by mistake. In sun-drenched Hyères, where the girls are dark and Saracen and the streets are lined with palms, the Germans still held. Fréjus, where Julius Caesar planted supplies for Gaul, was taken the first day. Saint-Raphael, a modest fishing village gone garish with the trappings of a modern coast resort, was quickly captured, too. But Cannes, its luxury hotels, meager beach, its dreams of gambling and fish, yachts and flowers still belonged to the Germans...
Satisfied that there was some cheating, the Mayor loosed his first attack against three clubs: tiny La Vie Parisienne (which seats 75 people, calls itself "the most intimate room in the city"), alleged to owe $13,693 in back city taxes; big, garish Copacabana (which The New Yorker recently described as "life in a boiler factory") allegedly owing $37,370; and the Stork Club, top playground of all, allegedly owing...
Badger's Paws. Göring was simple and unaffected when he welcomed Welles to his garish home, Karinhall, in the flat North German birch and pine woods. But the U.S. diplomat could not keep his eyes off the tubby Nazi's hands, which were "shaped like the digging paws of a badger." On his right hand Göring wore an enormous ring set with six huge diamonds; on his left he wore an emerald at least an inch square. Göring's hands were presumably more eloquent of German intentions than anything Welles heard...