Word: garishness
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...that are Japanese. Charley's excitement is enough to inspire his father, and soon the middle-aged literary novelist is parsing the finer points of Akira and Astro Boy. Carey is intrigued enough by this dazzling stuff?he hopes they'll "enter the mansion of Japanese culture through its garish, brightly lit back door"?but his real intention is to connect with Charley, who is on the brink of disappearing into the teenage years. So when Carey takes his son to Tokyo, where he arranges for them to interview Charley's favorite anim? directors and manga artists, he's really...
...play’s scenery is minimal: a chair or two, a table and the occasional hat material. Instead, our attention is focused through light, sound and incredibly creative costume. Garish blue and red and a combination of what sounds like church bells and clanging crowbars puts added stress on the gauntness and desperation of the prisoners’ parade, while Harper’s house contains an uneasy silence, set in shadow, so that we never quite know what will emerge...
...Shark Tale’s main characters, Lenny (a shark voiced by Jack Black) is so obviously meant to be a doppelganger for a homosexual man that five-year-olds are likely picking up on it well before the scene in which Lenny has a garish performance in full drag as a dolphin (the peaceful, sensitive creatures of the film’s world...
...this last breath of summer, when the air is still warm and we can walk without coats. The ice cream shops close around midnight, with throngs of Harvard students milling about the thresholds until even later. The crowds of first-years are especially self-evident. Pass under the garish glow of the streetlamps outside ABP, cross Dunster Street, and suddenly one strain of music fades while another emerges. English is drowned out by a plethora of other languages...
...evenings to an empty house. In his free time, he keeps an eye on his elderly parents, loves a good trivia night, and has drinks every Friday evening with longstanding colleagues. Sporting interests? You bet: orienteering and rogaining, activities that allow him to indulge his penchant for jogging in garish training apparel. That's Creaser's regular life. But for about a fortnight in the middle of every year this acute, vital 52-year-old breaks out, leaving the Canberra winter to join a team of scientists on the annual dig at Riversleigh, Australia's most precious treasure trove...