Word: garishness
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...relationship between Mommy and Daddy is cruel and emotionless--only their garish costumes are alive. The cliches they trade are devoid of anything behind the words themselves. Mommy blithely, unfeelingly, says, "Our long night is over. We must put away our tears, take off our mourning ... and face the future. It's our duty." Against these surfaces without substance, this ritual without meaning, stands the vitality of Grandma who, in the end, must accept the help of the vacuous young man, the angel of death...
Director George Hamlin has done an extremely skillful blocking job, and the motion does much to augment the thin script. Hamlin's actors move in sumptuous surroundings, designed by Donald Soule. The living room set is appropriately busy and garish, and the bedroom scene is almost worth the price of the ticket with its popsicle pink decor. Lewis Smith's excellent and correctly over-styled costumes complement the sets well...
Along the Ginza, Tokyo's garish main stem, a bar girl has to be able to handle all types-but even so. there's a limit. It came for one Ginza doll last week when. as she put it. "I felt something playing footsie with me under the table." Said she: "I figured it was the customer; but the game went on after he excused himself. Then I looked down, and there was this huge rat trying to pry some meat out from under my foot. Sure. I knew we had rats, but when they get that familiar...
Many have turned to reading out of town papers. The Washington Post, which runs garish color pictures on the front page and Walter Lippmann and Herblock inside, as a fine paper, and can be bought daily in the Square. Just to balance Lippmann and Herblock, the Post also Roscoe Drummond, a garrulous fellow somewhere to the right of the late Sen. Henry Dworshak...
...company some of the stag-night atmosphere in all its raunchy glory. It is like old times. Candy butchers, though a little self-consciously, hawk their dubious wares up the aisles during intermission, the world's worst orchestra is in the pit, the scenery is ghastly, the lighting garish, and the choreography might have been devised by a dancing bear. During the "Hello. Everybody" number, one of the magpie-voiced chorines flounces down to the footlights and squeals classically, "We will shimmy and we will shake, but please don't think we're on the make...