Word: garishness
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...Foreign Ministers met in the very room in the massive onetime Hohenzollern palace where the generals who tried to assassinate Hitler in 1944 were sentenced to hang on butcher's meathooks until dead. The ceiling above them bore a garish painting of the Last Judgment with a direful Gabriel blowing a gilded trumpet...
...Technicolor cartoon called Toot, Whistle, Plunk, and Boom. Though the cartoon shows a strong UPA influence, it clings to the saccharine sentimentality that has often plagued Disney. Cluttered with tweeting birds and comic cave men, the wide screen loses its panoramic effect in a flood of blaring music and garish color...
After the recent surge of star-filled African travelogues, The Pennywhistle Blues is pleasant entertainment indeed. Keeping the camera on actual natives in a small suburb outside Johannesburg, director Donald Swanson has uncovered something more absorbing than rushing rhinos and garish headdresses. And unlike his Hollywood counterparts, Swanson has commuted a warmth to the film beyond the Zulu temperatures...
...significant diversions--the American millionaire, the comic landlady--are written and played as stereotypes. Because of Julie Harris, however, I Am a Camera successfully captures the Sally of the Berlin Stories. The immature, flambouyant nymphomaniac steps from the book as Miss Harris sweeps on to the stage with a garish pink scarf, a long cigarette holder, and delicious dreams of floating down the Nile with "sensual Arabs watching from the tops of pyramids...
...feel the costumes, in most cases, were too garish, especially the Indian suits and the costume worn by James O'Neil. I realize the designers mean these costumes to create humorous impressions, but in these cases the clothes were a bit too stereotyped. On the other hand, the D.A.R. costumes were just right for the satire...