Word: garishness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Going Once Display of garish wealth or shopping opportunity of the century? Call it what you will, but the auction in Brunei to help pay off the massive debts of the Sultan's naughty playboy brother, Prince Jefri Bolkiah, was the tackiest display of useless extravagance ever assembled. If your shopping list included gold-plated toilet-brush holders, 8,500 slabs of Italian marble and an attack-helicopter simulator, you were in luck. The citizens of Brunei were not: in a victory for good taste, the auction raised a paltry $8 million...
...sure is tough. I feel genuinely bad for women who want buy comix and have to go into those horrifying comicbook stores hawking all that garish adolescent male art-swill. (I shop online to avoid them all.) There can be no doubt that part of comix' continuing marginalization has to do with past and continued alienation of half the creative force and half the consumer force. Trina Robbins "The Great Women Cartoonists" makes a tremendous contribution to rediscovering a fading history, with hopes of changing the future...
...they've gotten off on a floor the Dow hasn't seen since Sept. 5 and the NASDAQ since Aug. 7. Expect some profit-taking Thursday, for starters. And Friday, the Wall Street that may be starting to take consumer spending for granted will have to endure another (likely garish) rise in the unemployment rate for November - a number which, despite its irrelevance to actual economic progress, can scare the heck out of consumers and has sparked one or two Friday panic-sells in its time. (Like Sept. 7, for instance...
...streets looking for runaways, but for very different reasons: he's an officer in Tokyo's police youth-crimes unit. With his slicked-back hair and dark suit, Shioya blends in with the businessmen out for the night. But as he turns a corner, a clutch of men in garish jogging suits standing around a black Benz start murmuring. One of them begins to tail Shioya, mumbling into a cell phone. Shioya sighs. "All the Mob guys know my face around here," he says...
...garish kitchen with a window showcasing a fake view, Chef Tony and Suzie Taylor extol the Mighty PRO Grill. The grill cooks up Cornish hens, hot dogs, hamburgers, steaks, spare ribs, steak fries, etc., with little grease because it all drips down. But that’s not all, because the Mighty PRO Grill is “a flavor enhancer, use any liquid you like” to infuse your foods. How does beer beef sound? If you call 1-800-354-2800 soon, you’ll get, among other things, four steak knives with the Miracle Blade...