Word: garishness
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Impulse Buying. Nassi's techniques begin with shrill broadcast and print advertising that promises huge discounts "on every single item, in every department, no exceptions!" Next comes "instore development": garish sale signs are displayed in windows; merchandise counters are removed to make way for extra cash registers. The emphasis is on cash-and-carry and self-service. Fabrics are precut to more marketable sizes, clothing is clustered by size instead of type to encourage impulse buying (sportswear and fancy dresses are mixed together). Finally, liquidators mark additional discounts on such seasonal items as greeting cards, chocolate Easter eggs...
...Inserts are close-ups, garish interludes in the process of the whole." So explains Richard Dreyfuss as The Boy Wonder, a washed-up wunderkind silent-film director. Inserts, the film, is also a garish interlude, examining the transformation of an accomplished and talented young movie-maker into a drunken pornographic film director. The story itself involves the efforts of The Boy Wonder to finish shooting a porno flick in the course of a single afternoon, all in the living room of The Boy Wonder's Hollywood Spanish mansion. A "degenerate film with dignity," tacked with an "X" rating, conjures images...
...Eden a hundred years ago. 7576 accurately and comically recounts the sins of the fathers. Maimed Civil War veterans beg on the streets. The odor of the recently destroyed Tweed Ring still hovers over New York City. In Washington, the corruption of the Grant Administration grows more garish by the day. Everything and everybody has a price. An appointment to West Point costs the applicant's parents $5,000, while a seat in the U.S. Senate can be obtained for $200,000. U.S. Senators, as a rule, can be had for much less. Moral indignation, that main current...
...ones, are strung with lights; a large manger scene graces his front lawn; his garage lit up like a chapel; and his house is the temple itself, supporting the Star of Bethlehem, mechanical of course, proclaiming its message to the world. Most people, including L.S., label the display "garish" or even "obscene," but I, as a member of the heathens to whom it is directed, find it absolutely enchanting. With no regard for cost, this gentleman kept up the display into January. But even after it was taken down and packed away for the next pursuit of the millenium...
...results of the straw vote were nothing more than decorative, like the garish gunfighters and naked bodies that gyrate on pinball machines. The scoreboard lit up in St. Louis and a winner was announced, but the machine was tilted the whole time...