Word: garished
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...girls flash their pewter colored flowing dresses and the men, hopeful boys all, hope for pranks. It always goes this way though the setting may change as Harvard Square, for all its unmoving garish architecture is changing below the surface. Club 47 perishes in a side street, Nini's has been sterilized. Even the Brattle, now a complex, is taking on the unmistakable unfriendly glint of the established money-maker...
...endowment for the move. But unlike the new concert halls in Manhattan and Los Angeles, Powell is no monument to architectural modernity. As befits one of the nation's oldest professional orchestras,* the hall is actually the 42-year-old St. Louis Theater, a prime specimen of the garish era of movie-palace construction. The orchestra bought it for $400,000 and converted it into a concert hall for an additional...
...funk artists," whose gamy, gutsy assemblages have been shown in many national exhibits. Equally vigorous are half a dozen youthful Chicagoans who call themselves "the Hairy Who." As can be seen from Karl Wirsum's The Odd Awning Awed, the style of the Who is based on garish colors and art-nouveau line, draws its imagery from comic strips, bubble-gum wrappers and ath-lete's-foot advertisements. The movement's weakness is an adolescent desire to shock; its strength lies in its verve and technical proficiency-qualities that mark the Whitney Annual throughout and that...
...family, already wincing at the thought of Christmas ties to come, there is a foretaste in the garish $2 ties now being shipped round the country from St. Louis. "They are supposed to benefit the handicapped," says Atlanta Better Business Bureau Manager James W. Stephens. "But the people who are sending them define as handicapped anyone with less than 20-20 vision." What to do if unwanted and unordered goods arrive? Return them to the post office marked "Refused." If the merchandise is opened and lost or mislaid, Stephens still advises playing it tough. Says he: "When...
Chandler favors loud colors, even garish ones, and sometimes employs intentionally rough and unsubtle comic-strip techniques. His broad-stroke work often recalls Rouault. He himself especially admires and acknowledges the influence of Picasso, Rivera, Braque, Beckmann, Buffet, and the Negro muralist Charles White...