Word: garishly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from two other prospective locations. "We'll get him sooner or later," he chuckles. On the drive home, he wheels up to a fading stucco relic aside the four-lane. Shut down long ago, the nude club's blue canopy still flaps amid the weeds and litter, and a garish neon sign towers skyward. "Twenty warrants for prostitution and narcotics," he recalls. "Public-nuisance law and county ordinance. We sent them packing...
...thus becomes a receptive but essentially passive observer of a garish, deadly world, living, as he puts it, "in the very pulsebeat of the tabloids." He freely enters Mob-owned nightclubs and elegant, exclusive brothels. When no one, including reporters or federal agents, can find Schultz, Billy is allowed into his presence: "It is spectacular enough to see someone in the flesh whom you've only known in the newspapers, but to see someone the newspapers have said is on the lam definitely has a touch of magic to it." The young apprentice also learns that "I had caught...
...also cost the lives of three fellow astronauts: Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee, who had died on the launching pad the previous year. Some critics sneered at the outpouring of ingenuity and treasure. A "moondoggle," one detractor labeled the Apollo 8 flight. A Congressman termed it a "garish spectacle." It could be seen -- and was -- as history's most elaborate form of escapism...
...fought with our ravioli--Brooke considered and rejected the thought of asking for chopsticks--we admired the tassels hanging from the chandeliers and the many garish "Oriental" carvings. Laurie, completely smashed from three Bowls shared by as many women, floated...
MAMET relishes these games of greed and deception, and he displays the casinos and the mobsters in all their garish glory. He presents a colorful parade of mob hierarchy, from obsequious, weasel-like underlings to laconic, imperious chieftains...