Word: garishness
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...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...
...journey, at the Air Force Missile Test Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla., behind high security fences, the ICBM was stripped of its shroud, its garish yellow, black and red skin exposed to the light of day. Soon more than 300 Air Force and Convair scientists, engineers and technicians were primping and pampering "the Bird," grooming its round and bulbous nose, its disproportionately thick waist, its flared skirt, its unbelievably complex and exotic mechanism. One day soon, perhaps late in April, perhaps early in May, the Bird will make its first flight. From a sickle-shaped launching pad near a sunny...
...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...
...garish Acapulco the lavishly jeweled American widow and her elderly lawyer friend were steered everywhere by a handsome Mexican-American travel agent. Young Luis Fenton was a great find. His office was right in their hotel, Las Hamacas. Wealthy Mrs. Edith Hallock, 63, even wrote home admiringly about him to her sister in New York. With the help of Luis, 33, she and Joseph A. Michel, 70, saw everything-from the thrilling high dives of bronzed young natives off the towering sea cliffs to the intriguing low dives along the waterfront. Luis arranged a midnight yacht trip for the happy...