Word: garished
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...urban bard shuffles through a series of post-industrial pop-up books, from automotive rustoramas to garish circuses, unleashing his barbed tongue on esoterica like Dead Kennedys song titles and spaghetti westerns...
...cosmopolitan bistro fare?think steaks, sushi, tandoori dishes and Thai curries?while gazing on the luxury yachts and fishing boats bobbing in the water below. And while a good deal of the original fittings have been left intact, in Top Deck's flattering candlelight they appear chic instead of garish. In short, one of Hong Kong's best known tourist attractions finally has the standards of food and service it has long deserved...
...cosmopolitan bistro fare - think steaks, sushi, tandoori dishes and Thai curries - while gazing on the luxury yachts and fishing boats bobbing in the water below. And while a good deal of the original fittings have been left intact, in Top Deck's flattering candlelight they appear chic instead of garish. In short, one of Hong Kong's best known tourist attractions finally has the standards of food and service it has long deserved...
...wearing a maroon beret, puts his palms on either cheek of his lady companion, and then swoops in to kiss her savagely. Then, just down the way, a very pale white woman appears in Nigerian garb that she has been saving for just the proper occasion: an ankle-long, garish purple gown with green-glimmering sequins. She is emaciated—presumably by choice, not because (like a good many of the Africans she studies) she lacks food—and she is stumbling down this long, paisley-print carpet with a precarious glass of red wine.Lest I erroneously draw...
...military compound in the Sunni-dominated city of Mosul, pulled off her helmet and bullet-proof vest, smoothed her navy pantsuit and disappeared behind closed doors with Nineveh governor Duraid Kashmoula, a Sunni leader of legendary grit. Dozens of American soldiers billeted in what was once Saddam Hussein's garish palace on the Tigris milled about the marble halls, vying for a good camera angle to snap the rare American VIP visiting Iraq's second city, which has been plagued by insurgent and jihadist violence since...