Word: garishness
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...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra. The "Serenade to Music," with the text from Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice," demonstrated Vaughan Williams' great ability in fitting music to words. The gradual crescendo and accelerando that begins at the words "Come, ho, and wake Diana with a hymn," were vivid without being garish, effective without artificiality. And there were many other moments of similar dramatic unity...
...been since I became a man-a mixture of resolution, lyricism, sensualism and festivity." At 54 he paints with bold, broad strokes the things he sees around him. He roughhews his compositions, using an elementary and therefore easy-to-take sort of cubism. His colors are too garish to glow, his figures almost too heavy to breathe, but they please a good many people...
...next day gritty, garish, gold-lined Broadway was Bert Lahr's street. Lahr was a smash. Lahr was a sensation. NEW COMEDY KING CROWNED, read a Journal headline. Hold Everything ran for 413 performances. Suddenly the headwaiters, the cabbies, the reporters, the speakeasy bartenders all knew Bert Lahr. He played the Palace three times in six months with his old cop act at $4,500 a week. One hit followed another: Flying High, Hot-Cha!, Life Begins at 8:40, George White's Scandals, The Show...
...best scenes from "The Taming of the Shrew" with Porter's music and some exciting choreography by Hanya Holm to make a highly entertaining show. Lemuel Ayers' costumes and settings are not only magnificent but give the production a light pastel touch which keeps it from being the usually garish musical comedy...
...best of The Rose Tattoo is effective theater. David Diamond's incidental music is pleasant, and Boris Aronson's set appealing. Maureen Stapleton gives Serafina a crude, harsh vitality. But too often the play itself is lush, garish, operatic, decadently primitive, a salt breeze in a swamp, a Banana Truck Named Desire...