Word: garished
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...City is at its best in its subtler moments. During Brackett's interview, for example, a folksy guitar strums gently in the background as Baily plies millions of viewers with his simple charm. When Brackett cuts abruptly to a commercial, both guitar and Baily are unceremoniously replaced with a garish sneaker advertisement. The spell is suddenly broken and the effect is undeniable: we realize we've been played, effortlessly manipulated by a half-wit and a cheesy soundtrack...
...year-old bachelor, a former French air-force officer and an amateur pilot, was a big teddy bear who brought flowers for the bar's regulars but otherwise left them alone. Josie, the bartender, knew him well. "He never drank much," she says, leaning on the bar under a garish mural of nude women. "I've known him for 20 years. He was a nice guy, gentle. He'd drink Coke, Perrier, maybe a beer." Josie emphatically denies Paul was an alcoholic and says he appeared perfectly normal that night. "If he'd been a drunk, we would have known...
...referee, keeping the stars fighting without biting. Wright, like Maureen, is game for any outsize challenge, but her bantam desperation sounds shrill; at times she is overrun by the wild gestures that seize Maureen. Travolta, though, balances nicely on a seesaw of caring and exasperation; and Penn has every garish shade of Eddie in his palette. He gets the pain, charm and drive, the stumbling humor of a guy whose only religion is the woman who betrayed him. He turns a jerk into a heroic figure: St. Doofus...
...most obvious move, which they explored, would have been to sell off Graceland; one potential buyer, the city of Memphis, did a feasibility study on using Graceland as a tourist attraction and concluded that interest in Elvis had waned and that no one would pay to see the garish, crimson shag-carpeted house of a has-been rock star. Now Priscilla reversed herself, acting, she says, on faith as well as a sentimental attachment to what had been, after all, her nuptial home. While their bankers looked on aghast, she and Soden blew the last of the estate's cash...
...discoveries made after taking a wrong turn on the way from the tour bus to Victor/Victoria--might be surprised by the extent to which the area is approaching the millennium in a clean and sober state. That is, if "sober" fairly applies to a cityscape that has become more enthusiastically garish than ever thanks to the capabilities of modern signage. Tourism is rising; crime is dropping, at an even faster clip than in the rest of the city. The area is bustling with new hotels, new office buildings--not to mention new chain stores and corny theme restaurants that would...