Word: garishness
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...Heerwego enters from the door on the right, dressed in sports clothes--with bright, flowered, garish sport shirt, straw hat. He is slightly chubby...
...could come out sounding like a cut-rate whore, and apparently the strain of battling the built-in deficiencies of the role made her decide to quit. Eileen Heckart, as an often Auntie Mame-like Deedee Grogan, handles wise-cracks, insults, and pathos equally well, and looks appropriately garish in Miss Ballard's costumes. Madeleine Sherwood is hateful enough as Norma's mother, and Richard Derr, as the father of many, is grey flannel through and through...
...castigating his characters to really create them. Like many a transplanted American, English-born West, the son of British Author Rebecca West and the late great H. G. Wells, is drawn to the neon glare of U.S. life, but he lacks the gift of a Nabokov for rendering the garish horrors of motel culture. Author West obviously intends his critique of the horrible Hatfields to embrace the present-day U.S., but one rotting family tree scarcely makes a national forest...
...Italy's Emilio Vedova, 40, whose paintings, said one critic, "look like blackboards beaten with chalk erasers." Vedova uses white splotches on black backgrounds to create a canvas of garish, swirling effects, which he sweepingly titles Image of Time 1959, Tyranny 1960. ¶ Italy's Pietro Consagra, 39, who uses acetylene torches, electric drills, wrenches and vises to turn out large, dugout slabs of metal that look like negative prints of abstract bas-reliefs. Two almost identical pieces bear the titles Colloquy with Wife and Colloquy without Wife; the other nine Consagras are also called Colloquies. (Those...
...stagy, often garish, and outrageously flattering to his subjects; but he was also an ideal mirror for an age whose ideal was elegance and whose idol was Beau Brummell. In a sense, Lawrence was more honest with his time by painting it in all its blatant vanity-not as it was, but as it wanted...