It's easy on this still-sad stretch of the boulevard to notice only the garish come-ons: from Atomic Tattoo, No Limit Tobacco & Accessories, Liquor to Go, Original Tommy's burgers and Palms Thai Restaurant (where Thai Elvis sings).
It was still early in the evening, but Kiki, wearing a salmon-colored flapper dress, a bedazzled pink-and-black head bow, and garish drawn-on wrinkles, already seemed tipsy.
In the case of "Paradisio," it is a garish wet-on-wet swirl of red, blue, yellow and brown that, dominating the painting's bottom half, suggests the fluttering robes of an avenging archangel hurtling toward the yellow, apocalyptic void at the painting's center.
The other is a jagged piece of the Berlin Wall, made of a gritty composite barely deserving the name of stone, with a patch of garish graffiti on one side.
Not in the least because differentiation is crucial - if you are presented with three bright, verging on garish, afternoon newspapers on the streets of London and two are free but one is 50p, which one are you going to choose?
Housed in an elegant building next to a garish casino on the edge of Johannesburg, it carries on where the TRC left off.
And what was that garish thing on my Google?
A strip of garish hoardings on stalks reaches into the distance.
Similarly, avoid garish patterns on ties that can distract an interviewer.
