Word: garishness
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...illustrations are what seals the deal. Kirk, who majored in art at the Cleveland Institute of Art, paints Miss Spider's rotund little body and curlicue hair in bold, almost hallucinatory colors, with outsize eyes and eyelashes and her world in equally poppy hues--just garish and cutesy enough that children lap it up. And not only children. Miss Spider moved from moderately well known fictional character to pop-cultural boldface name when Madonna read Tea Party at a nightclub event that was broadcast live on MTV in 1995. Suddenly the divine Miss S. was a favorite of college kids...
...mind the secularization of Christmas, and I don’t even mind its commercialization. For better or for worse, there is a commercial Christmas, represented by Santa Claus, garish Christmas lights, “A Christmas Carol,” jammed airports and shopping malls and scary claymation TV movies about Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Commercial Christmas may not have much to do with the original Christmas, but it is a tradition in its own right, one that exists beside traditional Christmas as the star of a biographical movie exists beside the movie’s subject. What...
...imagine Steven de Souza or some other Hollywood scribe hearing of "A Number" and drooling over the exploitation possibilities. But Churchill is less interested in the garish colors of melodrama than the shadings of personality. In Salter, the joy of early parenthood turns bitter and abusive when his wife killed herself and he is left with dreams of killing his own son by reproducing him. In the nice Bernard, revelation upends an ordinary life: however hard it is to learn you were adopted, it must be - given the double-time march of science it certainly will be - harder to learn...
...Tang gives ?Red to Kill? a lot of style to complement his characters? fevered behavior: compositions architectural in their framing; a palette that plays the garish red against a night of black and dark blue. But his real art is in dragging the viewer not only into the sick action but into the steaming souls of villain and victim. As Hendrix writes: ?This is a movie that spirals down and down until it passes the point of no return. And then it doesn?t. (The) characters, traumatized by their very existence, run around sweating and crying out their pain, looking...
...money too ugly to spend. The territory's monetary authority last month released into circulation a revamped $10 bill that, instead of inspiring confidence in the territory's financial underpinnings, reminds people of a discount coupon for laundry detergent. "It looks juvenile," says local merchant Jeremy Chia of the garish pink and purple banknote. Part of the problem is the inclusion of numerous anti-counterfeiting features, including embossed text and a watermarked bauhinia flower. "The abundance of security features may not be appropriate," admitted monetary authority chief executive Joseph Lam?especially since the note, worth about...