Word: garishness
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...ever a city stood as a symbol of the dynamic U.S. economy, it was Detroit. It was not pretty. It was, in fact, a combination of the grey and the garish: its downtown area was a warren of dingy, twisting streets; the used-car lots along Livernois Avenue raised an aurora of neon. But Detroit cared less about how it looked than about what it did-and it did plenty. In two world wars, it served as an arsenal of democracy. In the auto boom after World War II. Detroit put the U.S. on wheels as it had never been...
...setting of garish sports shirts, pastel shorts, and knobby knees pinkening in the summer sun, 500 designers, teachers and admen gathered in Colorado last week for the eleventh annual Aspen International Design Conference. The theme of the conference was "Man-The Problem Solver." But if the delegates expected comforting words on man's deductive powers, they were brought up short by Designer Bernard Rudofsky, chief architect of U.S. exhibits at the Brussels Fair and guest director of exhibitions at Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
...Young & the Old. At their best, the bejeweled objects have a kind of glittering splendor, though they are mostly gaudy and garish. Art aside, they have a haunting eloquence that speaks of centuries of death and torture. They came from loot and levy, from wars that saw men and women massacred by the thousands, and boys and girls swept off to slavery. As the Turkish Historian Sead-dedin wrote of the capture of Constantinople by Mohammed in 1453: "Having received permission to loot, the soldiers thronged into the city with joyous hearts, and there, seizing the possessors and their families...
...though not all, bars--so let's start with the movies. The good old dependables are the Kenmore, the Exeter (usually British imports), the Telepix in Boston, and the Brattle in Cambridge. For the sex-and-sadism spectaculars, amble down Washington St., the 42nd St. of Boston and more garish than anything along Broadway. There you can identify with the teen-age werewolves on the Cinemascope screens...
...pretty obvious to us how to get out. Apparently the University is expecting a rather dense class of '65. Or perhaps these garish luminous signs may have been installed to direct alumni after their more serious cocktail parties...