Word: garishness
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...serious question for the churches that endorse them. These films offer valuable publicity and good will benefits, but it is quite possible to both popularize something and empty it of meaning at the same time. Hollywood mixtures of the Sacred and the Super-Colossal often blend into a garish circus atmosphere with sacrelegious overtones...
...instruments were automatic. In the gymnasium were all sorts of exercise equipment, including an ingenious machine, made in Battle Creek, Mich., which was supposed (but signally failed) to keep the royal rump from becoming imperial. Farouk's study was a pornographer's paradise, hung with garish paintings and crammed with statuettes of nudes in attitudes conventional as well as unconventional-at least by U S standards. In his desk was a box of "magic tricks," including two pocket radiation counters inscribed: "Measure Nuclear Energy Yourself...
...convention hall itself seemed a touch less garish than usual. The gay red, white & blue was balanced by quiet greys and blues (which show up more sharply on TV). The face of Abraham Lincoln looked down earnestly on the delegates. An hour behind schedule, pudgy National Chairman Guy Gabrielson advanced to the rostrum, which jutted, like the bridge of an ocean liner, above the floor. "O.K., boys," he said, and banged the gavel...
...advance-guard offering, a section of weathered wood decorated with horseshoe nails and bright paint, drew indignant snorts. "Pay $350 for that piece of wood?" exclaimed a shopgirl. "I wouldn't have it in my house." "You can say that again," agreed her chum. Next to one garish green and red abstraction labeled The Eye (price: $1,400) somebody hung a piece of rope with the tag, "Hunk of Rope...
...female operatives, Debby Reynolds and Jean Hagen, also acquit themselves with a heretofore concealed competence, and the general decor of the backgrounds is lush but not garish or offensive...