Word: over-the-top
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...soggy climes certainly have not dampened soaring couture fantasies. John Galliano gave the house of Dior a rocking 60th anniversary salute with an over-the-top high drama collection that included 45 supermodels, each decked out as a vision of an artist who had somehow touched Christian Dior's life and spirit. Linda Evangelista in an evocative deep wine taffeta dress a la Caravaggio. Naomi Campbell inspired by Alma-Tadema. There was a pink confection that looked right out of a Fragonard, Amber Valetta in pale blue, a portrait of Renoir. Each dress more elaborate and evocative than the first...
...energetic takedown of a ratty ex-boyfriend who walked out of her life with a pious, high-minded e-mail. Or did he? Halfway through this pavilion it occurred to me that the boyfriend, and the e-mail, might be fictitious. Which makes no difference to the deliciously over-the-top mechanisms of the piece...
...could hope for in extraordinary hotel service was an unusually fluffy imported duvet, express dry cleaning and perhaps even fulfillment of a random late-night food craving. But as discerning travelers spend more extravagantly, they have become increasingly demanding. Luxury hotels are responding with all kinds of new, over-the-top amenities--from decadent sundaes dished up in guests' rooms to poolside tanning butlers or canine room service...
...Hucklebee and Mortimer, respectively. The small-framed, raspy-voiced Shemtov has played improbable roles before, as in his performance as Big Babushka in “Slavs” last year. He delivered again in “The Fantasticks” with a brassy, over-the-top and yet consistently impressive interpretation of Hucklebee, an angry, middle-aged gardening-enthusiast father. Meanwhile, Glaser’s Mortimer, the sidekick to Henry (Jonah C. Priour ’09), threw his whole body into well-executed slapstick. Glaser’s acting was particularly effective in the show?...
...guys, calm down, this isn't Bennigan's," sassed Ginger, a short blonde in a black dress slit up to the waist, on a recent Wednesday night. My friends and I were at Lips, a Manhattan restaurant that turns into a bingo parlor midweek with drag queens - those over-the-top, tell-it-like-it-is men dressed as women - plucking balls from the bingo cage...