Word: garishness
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...Democrats, in a typically garish display of ineptitude, allowed the issue to slip away in 2002. They blocked the Department of Homeland Security - which they had proposed in the first place - because the Republicans wanted to loosen union rules governing hiring and firing. Biden believes this stubbornness cut into his party's usual advantage with women and cost it the election. The Democrats, of course, succumbed immediately thereafter: the Department of Homeland Security was established. But not very much security has come of it. Indeed, Budget Director Mitchell Daniels blurted the real Bush strategy last week: "There is not enough...
...Saturday in downtown Aachen, a city in western Germany near the Belgian and Dutch borders. With Germany teetering on the edge of recession, most stores in the neighborhood are half-empty. But on a street called Löhergraben, one store is packed: Aldi. With brown speckled floor tiles, garish neon lights and a limited assortment of products in half-opened cardboard boxes, it's the least-inviting place around. But it's also the cheapest, and so the line to Aldi's two cash registers stretches the entire length of the store - about 30 people in all, their carts...
Instead of sheepishly ignoring such disruptions, those of us who value our freedom from the garish electronic tones of “Für Elise” should push for cell phone fines. Think of them as an “annoyance tax” that reflects the cost of time lost while cell-phone users rifle through their bags to switch off offending phones. If your cell phone rings in class, you will pay $20. If it goes off in the dining hall...
...illustrations are what seals the deal. Kirk, who majored in art at the Cleveland Institute of Art, paints Miss Spider's rotund little body and curlicue hair in bold, almost hallucinatory colors, with outsize eyes and eyelashes and her world in equally poppy hues--just garish and cutesy enough that children lap it up. And not only children. Miss Spider moved from moderately well known fictional character to pop-cultural boldface name when Madonna read Tea Party at a nightclub event that was broadcast live on MTV in 1995. Suddenly the divine Miss S. was a favorite of college kids...
...mind the secularization of Christmas, and I don’t even mind its commercialization. For better or for worse, there is a commercial Christmas, represented by Santa Claus, garish Christmas lights, “A Christmas Carol,” jammed airports and shopping malls and scary claymation TV movies about Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Commercial Christmas may not have much to do with the original Christmas, but it is a tradition in its own right, one that exists beside traditional Christmas as the star of a biographical movie exists beside the movie’s subject. What...