Word: garishness
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...good director, Jon Walton, handled what is essentially a wordy play with real agility. And if his casting was spotty, it should be noted that a few garish performances did not seriously mar the play just as a few brilliant ones did not make...
...garish side, Mary Vogel Walton has a bad diction problem ("lit-tle, Lat-tin, . ."). Despite her handsome bearing, when she opens her enough what comes out is dull, thus reducing the Dean's patron (and former pupil) to a dramatic nonentity, Kathrya Schoes (Cora Jenks) commits the converse sin of unmitigated shricking...
...music by the Minneapolis Symphony. Bowlers at Ohio State's union play 200,000 games a year; its cafeterias serve 800,000 meals. The University of California's six-level center at Berkeley is a $6.7 million crazy quilt that wags call "Jack Tar East" after a garish San Francisco hotel; it will soon become a four-building center housing 150 student clubs, a 2,000-seat auditorium, a hushed "meditation room" and a raucous snack bar inevitably called "Bear's Lair." New York University's ten-story, $5,000,000 center offers diners a view...
...mangrove stood out black against Key Largo's garish blue sky," the novel begins, and the readers can almost see the ghost of Humphrey Bogart standing under it, whistling for Lauren Bacall. Josee goes off with a Chris-Craft skipper named Ricardo, then presents her husband with a cake bearing a single burning candle-"to celebrate the first time I've been unfaithful to you." They separate in New York, after roaming Harlem until dawn and finishing off the adventure in "a small, deserted bar on Broadway"-a foreign fictional figment which, as every bag-eyed nightclubber knows...
...start with the movies. The good old dependables are the Kenmore, the Exeter (usually British imports), the Brattle, and the Harvard Square. The last two are both in Cambridge. For the sex-and- sadism spectaculars, amble down Washington St., the 42nd st. of Boston and more garish that anything along Broadway. There you can identify with the teen-age werewolves on the Cinemascope screens...