Word: garishness
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...excited friends, their fingers trembling over the shutter, counted, "Ready, one, two..."--but just before "Three" was heard and the shutter clicked, the girls would fling their arms around Keanu's neck in a hormonal surge, to be caught on film for posterity. Boyfriends looked around uncomfortably as garish lapses of modesty struck graduate after graduate. Other guests joined...
...Harvard last week, under the most garish lights outside a discount-store dressing room and stopping to take deep breaths and frequent sips of water, she either gave an Oscar-worthy rendition of a person with stage fright or she actually had it. (Who wouldn't? Everyone from Mikhail Gorbachev to Mario Cuomo has preceded her to the podium of the Institute of Politics.) She delivered a TelePrompTed broadside at her critics, naming names (Rush, Newt, Jesse--Helms, not Jackson--and the editor of the New Republic). She denounced the politicians and media who seduce and then turn on performers...
...will show us not only Bay Area art but also, in real depth, art from the Pacific Rim-particularly Japan and Australia-which other American museums currently ignore. That would be of more interest than the standard international McMenu of post-McModernism, represented here by such delicacies as a garish Jeff Koons and some enormous, effete Sigmar Polkes. A museum of SFMOMA's potential importance, in a city with its own rich art traditions, should have the best of the vin du pays. One hopes so, now that it need no longer be kept in the cellar...
...exhibit, not all of the women are garish creatures. Toulouse-Lautrec's Absinthe Drinker may be a prostitute, but she possesses a maternal modesty conveyed by her relaxed posture, unassuming clothes and coloring in tonal browns. She's not a redhead, as are many of Toulouse-Lautrec's women, nor does she look embalmed and fluorescent as the harsh lighting of the Moulin Rouge was apt to render its drunk habituees. Absinthe Drinker is a refreshing contrast to Toulouse-Lautrec's unflattering portraits. But here again, the work is not psychologically revealing, because the woman is shown in profile...
Other than watching television, there is nothing modern Americans like to do more than pour out our hearts to strangers. It's a trend that is reflected here at Harvard, where the campus is littered with garish posters advertising the various counseling services available to members of the University community...