Word: garishly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...With his garish ties and gaudy boots, Douglas T. Snarr, 35, comes on like a big bad billboard. He is, indeed, the founder and president of Snarr Advertising, Inc., which owns 1,600 outdoor signs in 13 Western states. Yet Doug Snarr has also become a one-man lobby to ban billboards from any rural road built with federal financial help...
...garish profusion of hamburger stands, fruit-juice parlors, pancake emporia and muffler-repair shops stretches for ten miles along Ventura Boulevard in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley. It could be called Franchise Row. Though hardly a landscape to captivate the eye, the phenomenon is increasingly common to cities and suburbs. Franchising-an arrangement by which local entrepreneurs lease their firm name, product and operating methods from large chains-has become one of the fastest-growing sectors of U.S. business. Through franchising, thousands of independent small businessmen have acquired improved techniques, new economic power and a greatly enhanced chance...
...best thing about Baltimore," according to Comedian Mark Russell, "is the tunnel that runs under it." Nonetheless, its garish strip clubs and clip joints make it one of America's favorite ports of call for sex-starved sailors and roistering conventioneers. If it is something of an Eldorado for the fun-seeking male, the city's seedy 19th century core is also a nightmare for a reform-minded police commissioner and city planners, who in recent years have managed to replace 22 depressed acres of slums with office buildings, hotels and theaters. The city's present target...
Handsome but Coarse. Oskar Kokoschka then was a young, lean, in tense nobody. He was one of the radical group of "Expressionists" who sought, with staccato rhythms and garish colors, to "express" on their canvases tormented moods and fantasies rather than to portray fashionable, naturalistic everyday scenes. "Crazy Kokoschka," his critics called him. Archduke Francis Ferdinand, who was later to die at Sarajevo, grumbled that "this fellow's bones ought to be broken...
...humble medium. At the Auguste Clot print shop in Paris, where Munch perfected his technique, he had to draw on lithographic stones, which were generally smaller than the canvases he used. Moreover, the presses of the day were only equipped to reproduce three or four elementary (and usually plain garish) col ors. Thus Munch had to stay with simple, intimate compositions-in which his natural gifts for boldness and symbolism were dramatized...