Word: garishness
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...Party Next Door" the principal character is Anthony, a professor of Greek and Roman History, who has a wife named Mary, and a small house in a very nice real estate development. When Anthony and Mary come from their summer vacation they find a garish stucco house newly-erected on the lot next to theirs and the unfolding of Anthonys' late for its occupants begins with a noisy house-warming when Anthony summons the police to keep them quiet. The splondid psychological outlining of Anthony's defiant but helpless rage is contained in a piece of writing that makes...
...also the Steel Pier Grand Opera Company which performs on summer weekend nights. Managed by Jules Falk, the company is staffed with able second-string singers, who have accomplished the unique feat of singing consistently and successfully in English for the past seven years. For all its garish and noisy surroundings, the Steel Pier repertoire is catholic enough to do credit to many a better-known company. Last week of the 31,000 people who thronged the pier, 1,200 filled the theatre, heard the opening double bill: Pagliacci and The Secret of Suzanne. Besides staples, the summer schedule includes...
...Sharp. In 1930, Technicolor cameras had used two negatives, one to record reds and yellows, the other to record blues and greens. The chief faults in this process were that it blurred all outlines, failed to register either pure blue or pure yellow and had a range limited to garish greens and oranges. By 1932, Dr. Kalmus had a new process based on a camera which split light through a three-sided prism onto three negatives (red, blue and yellow), which recorded all the colors of the rainbow with fidelity. By this time the only producer who would listen...
...inventors whose membership in the Moscow region alone is reported around 30,000. Down to the last man they are eager to show Joseph Stalin what they can do. What they lack in formal training they make up for in imagination. Thus it is that Russia is flooded with garish science news and the Soviet citizen has hardly time to catch his breath after one marvel before another is upon...
Genre painting means a style or subject matter dealing realistically with scenes of everyday life. That was all the 171 exhibits in the Whitney Museum had in common. Emotionally pictures varied from the sentimental Girl and Pets, by the mid-Victorian Eastman Johnson, to a blunt garish study of U. S. sailors tousling trollops on a park bench, painted in 1933 by Paul Cadmus (TIME, April 30; May 28). The New York American's venerable Critic Malcolm Vaughan was so pleased by all he saw that he wrote...