Word: garishness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week and given him a taste of the good posh life he never knew back in London's Bermondsey slums. At 21, Tommy is Britain's first homegrown rock 'n' roller. He appears before his public with his pipestem legs encased in garish blue pants, with embroidered silver guitars running down the seams. Tommy goes through all the required hip swivelings and head bobbings as he emits his spasmodic love calls...
...leather jackets and were attacking New Jersey with death rays. Thus on Halloween of 1938 did Orson Welles don a sheet and say "Boo!" to the radio audience with an adaptation of H. G. Wells's classic thriller, The War of the Worlds, and launch the most garish panic in the annals of broadcasting...
...cheap lover, Lloyd Bridges, she said: "I see in you the governor of a great state." These thematic straws did not interfere with the brutal clash of character, and the clash is what made the TV play exciting. Against the seedy raffishness of a steamy Staten Island house and garish honkytonk. the actors caught all the color and dimension of the human beings Odets so acutely observed. As they talked, the idea gleamed that here was where TV Writer Paddy (Marty) Chayefsky first met many of the people he writes about...
...Whom the Bell Tolls with Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant was produced during the last years of the war, --the garish, painted scenery is still painfully in evidence, even though the film has been adapted for the wide screen...
...hard, finally, to isolate material from method, the world's violence from Williams' own, because of the garish orchestrating of his protest, the sheer fireworks of his pessimism. Talent as vivid as Williams' is often as lopsided; few highly personal visions of life are notably panoramic. What tells against Orpheus Descending is less something limited than something lurid; what vitiates the play, even as it animates it, is so canny a theater sense. It is the stage's melodrama, not the world's malevolence, that consistently wears its heartlessness on its sleeve...