Word: garishness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...contest has been used for the good as well as the garish...
...beyond satiation. In this case, every joke is carried to its natural end at the time it is made, characters are ridiculed as much as humanly possible when they are first introduced, and the show itself continues long past the conclusion of the actual musical with a lengthy, garish kick-line number...
...that are Japanese. Charley's excitement is enough to inspire his father, and soon the middle-aged literary novelist is parsing the finer points of Akira and Astro Boy. Carey is intrigued enough by this dazzling stuff?he hopes they'll "enter the mansion of Japanese culture through its garish, brightly lit back door"?but his real intention is to connect with Charley, who is on the brink of disappearing into the teenage years. So when Carey takes his son to Tokyo, where he arranges for them to interview Charley's favorite anim? directors and manga artists, he's really...
...play’s scenery is minimal: a chair or two, a table and the occasional hat material. Instead, our attention is focused through light, sound and incredibly creative costume. Garish blue and red and a combination of what sounds like church bells and clanging crowbars puts added stress on the gauntness and desperation of the prisoners’ parade, while Harper’s house contains an uneasy silence, set in shadow, so that we never quite know what will emerge...
...Shark Tale’s main characters, Lenny (a shark voiced by Jack Black) is so obviously meant to be a doppelganger for a homosexual man that five-year-olds are likely picking up on it well before the scene in which Lenny has a garish performance in full drag as a dolphin (the peaceful, sensitive creatures of the film’s world...