Word: garishness
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...epic in the sense that the garish extravagances of DeMille were called epics. Its effects are not won by means of pyromaniac mobs that made D. W. Griffith a god in Hollywood. Rather "Cavalcade" is a drama of family patriotism; and because the finer qualities of an Englishman are the finer qualities of an American it commands the emotions and sympathy of the American audience...
...opportunity to observe Charles Laughton in the role of a depraved physician who sets up a physiological research station on a remote Pacific isle and comes to a bad end at the claws of a crew of extras made up to resemble subhumans. If the principal role in this garish adaptation of H. G. Wells's Island of Doctor Moreau had been entrusted to some one else, it might very well have emerged as a routine nightmare, notable mainly for the presence of Paramount's highly publicized but not particularly bestial "panther woman" (Kathleen Burke). Miss Burke...
Even more prodigious than the performance was the mechanical equipment of the theatre, most of which the spectator did not see. Here & there in the vast theatre, whose simply decorated, low striated vault should end one garish phase of theatre construction, was an amazing entertainment apparatus. Items...
...course of his years the Vagabond has watched three cousins and two dear friends move gracefully into the garish light of the Somerset or into the dimmer glow of the Chilton Club. He has helped compose letters to enable girls to enter the Junior League, he has sat through innumerable suppers of scrambled eggs and sausages, he has worn many white ties, and seen countless suns rise slowly out of the district men call Back Bay. He has even, in the rush of his youth sat through one entire Vincent Show--later, in the dignity of his age, he departed...
...Pirnie, Simons store are tables stacked with crackers, condensed milk, razor blades, patent medicines, adding machines and other products of U. S. industry. But these articles are not the store's stock in trade. Aided by garish window displays (including large gilded dollars), the store's bright salesmen sell securities listed on the Stock Exchange. Though the store was organized by an old stock salesman, it is now in charge of a seasoned merchandiser who gave it what Pirnie, Simons calls "the Fifth Avenue touch...