Word: garished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...advance-guard offering, a section of weathered wood decorated with horseshoe nails and bright paint, drew indignant snorts. "Pay $350 for that piece of wood?" exclaimed a shopgirl. "I wouldn't have it in my house." "You can say that again," agreed her chum. Next to one garish green and red abstraction labeled The Eye (price: $1,400) somebody hung a piece of rope with the tag, "Hunk of Rope...
...female operatives, Debby Reynolds and Jean Hagen, also acquit themselves with a heretofore concealed competence, and the general decor of the backgrounds is lush but not garish or offensive...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra. The "Serenade to Music," with the text from Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice," demonstrated Vaughan Williams' great ability in fitting music to words. The gradual crescendo and accelerando that begins at the words "Come, ho, and wake Diana with a hymn," were vivid without being garish, effective without artificiality. And there were many other moments of similar dramatic unity...
...been since I became a man-a mixture of resolution, lyricism, sensualism and festivity." At 54 he paints with bold, broad strokes the things he sees around him. He roughhews his compositions, using an elementary and therefore easy-to-take sort of cubism. His colors are too garish to glow, his figures almost too heavy to breathe, but they please a good many people...
...next day gritty, garish, gold-lined Broadway was Bert Lahr's street. Lahr was a smash. Lahr was a sensation. NEW COMEDY KING CROWNED, read a Journal headline. Hold Everything ran for 413 performances. Suddenly the headwaiters, the cabbies, the reporters, the speakeasy bartenders all knew Bert Lahr. He played the Palace three times in six months with his old cop act at $4,500 a week. One hit followed another: Flying High, Hot-Cha!, Life Begins at 8:40, George White's Scandals, The Show...