Word: garishness
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...pronounced the building in effect as important a memento of America's history as, say, the gilded facade of Grand Central Terminal, about ten blocks down the avenue. Now Fisher Bros., the real estate developers, have challenged this designation. They want to replace Lever House with a somewhat garish and more profitable 40-story tower that they say would earn the city an additional $9.4 million in taxes annually. Within the next five weeks, the city's powerful board of estimate will make the final decision on Lever House's landmark status...
...famed marathon. With its red, white and blue neon pulsating gaudily above the rooftops, the sign advertising Citgo, the Cities Service Company's trademark, somehow seemed right for Boston; for all its tackiness, the great ad in the sky fitted in. But now a threat looms over the garish and beloved landmark: Cities Service wants to tear it down...
Rainer Werner Fassbinder's death in June, at 36, had all the garish contradictions of the film maker's melodramas. The police diagnosis-overdose of sleeping pills and cocaine-pointed up the standard celebrity moral of too much work, too many indulgences, too little time. For those moviegoers who had seen the Bavarian-born director at film festivals or spotted him in his own pictures, his death, impossible to imagine, became in retrospect easy to predict. Chronically scraggly and overweight, encased in dark glasses and neck-to-ankle black leather, skulkingly showboating his eminence, he looked the very...
...outraged by the doctor-nurse scene, convinced that Miles has written it to degrade women: "Ever since I got into serious liberation, you been takin' the mickey. I got your number, mate. You're the original pig. Numero Uno." Despite the leather gear, dyed hair and garish makeup, Miles recognizes this apparition as an old, inspiring friend. She is Erato, the classical Muse of lyric poetry and, by historical default, of fiction as well...
...whenever he can. Now and then, when the band strikes up Hail to the Chief, the President leans over to Nancy and says, "They are playing our song." He chuckled to himself, an old sportscaster, that the baseball All-Star game was played without his even knowing. Even that garish glen-plaid suit that rattled European style arbiters brought a guffaw. "Did you see that suit on NBC? I like that suit. And then I saw an NBC shot indoors and that suit gleamed like it was lighted...