Word: garishes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Readers had mixed feelings about the Sept. 15 cover illustration. While an Ohio woman was "relieved that TIME tastefully acknowledged the second anniversary of 9/11 without resorting to garish displays," a Californian was not pleased, declaring, "Those three scowling, sunglasses-wearing men look as if you plucked them out of a cheap music video. It's an ugly stereotype, pandering to our worst prejudices." And a Belgian was even more piqued, saying, "Rarely have I seen a more racist cover picture or one more likely to reinforce misguided nationalism and resentment on both sides of the world...
...Harrison said he hopes the theater won’t lead to garish displays...
...Entering from the north, one of the first vintage-togs stalls is All About Denim run by laid-back Gai, whose sound system seems to play only two types of music: country and Western. Stocking seriously battered cowboy boots (from 500 baht, which is $12, upwards) and garish, gabardine shirts with pearled snap buttons (from 500 to 4,000 baht), this is the spot if you fancy kitting yourself out like singing cowboy Gene Autry. Just a few more meters into the m?l?e nestles hole-in-the-wall outlet Golden Man. Its friendly proprietor, Preecha?his chuffed, pixie face framed...
...fourth-most-wanted man in Iraq, had a panorama on a life come undone. To the south he could make out the sprawling family farmlands where he used to spend weekends with his boss and cousin, Saddam Hussein. A few miles up the road stood the ex-regime's garish presidential palaces, now occupied by soldiers of the U.S. Army's 4th Infantry Division. And to the north Mahmud could survey the open desert plains just beyond the city and ponder how to make a great escape...
...Iraqi military has had a rough couple months. First it endured a crushing rout at the hands of U.S. and British forces, then watched as enemy soldiers took up residence in the garish palaces? that once served as the Iraqi command centers.? Last month the head of the U.S.'s postwar administration in Iraq, Paul Bremer, delivered the? most painful blow, dissolving Iraq's armed forces and putting 400,000 soldiers? out of work without so much as a pink slip...