I just thought it felt kind of chintzy and cheap.
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Set against the chintzy, plush surroundings, she cuts a reserved figure.
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Aesthetically, it appears to be made from a comparatively chintzy, all-plastic shell.
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It's a bit of a chintzy anecdote, but it always stayed with me.
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Amid struggling towns and former pit communities, there are farms and chintzy tourist villages.
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Turkle wondered if bonds with these robopets, even the chintzy ones, could be real.
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Some complain soccer is a chintzy distraction from the sophistry of our ruling classes.
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I expected it to be chintzy because it's the company's first piece of hardware.
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The decor is wonderfully chintzy, with proper Italian-family-dining-table crockery and glassware.
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Adjoining it was a cramped, impressively ugly antechamber — floral-print settee, chintzy sconces, sad carpet.
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For one, the chintzy plastic in the headband has been replaced with sturdy anodized aluminum.
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It's designed with the same chintzy indifference as Samsung's old gamepad, made of dull black plastic.
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The dress is like a chintzy Halloween costume version of Megara in the Disney animated Hercules.
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I get that it's lightweight, but it feels and looks chintzy the longer I stare at it.
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The series is a response to the chintzy and tacky Australian merchandise that floods the country's shelves.
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When it comes to reciprocating, the United States is known to be "very chintzy," Mr. Feierstein said.
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READ ME:Colorful design is refreshing, but it looks chintzy and childish up close due to its cheap materials.
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And, a cohort of "grandmillennials" who gravitate toward chintzy wallpaper and lace curtains are currently enjoying a moment.
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It also has two programmable side buttons, and a colored aluminum top casing, with chintzy-looking plastic casing underneath.
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Her notebook doodle-style illustrations would later turn the chintzy Summit At Sea cruise ship elevators into immersive daydreams.
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Baldauf said the state's answer to the murder case should not be "chintzy populism" or a racist hate campaign.
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An aristocrat, an upstanding military man, debased to cheating on a chintzy gameshow by the weight of the world.
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Chintzy remote aside, TCL's 4-Series should work for people who want 4K and HDR support without going broke.
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The gold candles and the white shag carpet in the book photo is a bit TOWIE and chintzy for me.
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Maybe it's just thankful that it isn't going to hear a chintzy version of Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Under The Bridge" next.
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The all-plastic body is chintzy and somehow made even more tacky with one of the worst gaming PC logos I've seen.
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Samsung Galaxy Tab S43 specs On the left side of the keyboard, there's a removable S Pen holder, but it feels chintzy.
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They looked, too, at domestic portraits by Tina Barney, whose subjects often seem inseparable from the chintzy décor of their living rooms.
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The CTS-V feels significantly cheaper inside than just about anything at this price point, with lots of black plastics and chintzy controls.
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"I've always wondered what it would be like to tell a narrative story inside the universe of a chintzy karaoke video," explains Palomo.
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But the journey itself seems little more than window dressing, a chintzy narrative that almost undermines his innate talents and rightful mass appeal.
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And yes, there's also something chintzy about bargaining down prices at a store where the merchandise was donated to support a good cause.
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"Some of it came out great; some of it came out kind of chintzy," said Barbara Res, then an employee of the Trump Organization.
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Gonzalez has spoken at length about the album's unfashionable source material: soft rock, theatrical metal, chintzy disco, theme songs for shows like Punky Brewster.
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Side-by-side, the Active looks a bit thicker, but it also looks less chintzy—the Sport's nylon case really doesn't do it any favors.
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On Broadway, under what looks like a thousand lights, in front of a crowd impatient to cheer, this makes him a chintzy Big Bad Wolf.
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Currently on exhibition in Mmuseumm's fifth season: chintzy Trump-branded paraphernalia; artifacts left by immigrants at the US-Mexico border; immaculate replicas of ISIS currency.
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Like a wedding at a country club, a fan convention in a series of "event spaces" necessarily flattens something special, strange, and specific into something chintzy.
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" She remains transparent about that process, explaining that she "likes to keep [her] work very realistic, but not so realistic that the flowers border on 'chintzy.
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When the talk show finally starts, we are greeted by Ferrell, wearing a suit and tie on a chintzy set and interviewing a recently released hostage.
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Things turn even more awkward: Julia confiscates Tzanko's wristwatch, which he calls Glory (it's an heirloom of sorts), and substitutes it with his chintzy digital award.
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And I stuck to the new stuff, which means it was a delightful, chintzy slog through more "Jingle Bells" remixes than one person should have to endure.
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Sometimes called Latin hip-hop, freestyle has deep connections to breakdancing culture, and is marked by chintzy synths, saccharinely romantic lyrics, and the snaps of an 808.
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I'm fond of the bloated, chintzy-orchestral, Phil Spector-produced Death of a Ladies Man (1977), and his spare, nimble debut Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967) too.
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During their local weather segments, the station programmed these beautifully chintzy jazz tracks, borderline muzak so distinctive to the station that they began selling compilations of it.
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Rather than magnets, the buds contact the charging pins by sheer force of the case's top half closing onto them, which makes the whole package feel chintzy.
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Jean's songs, with their sun-bleached melodies and chintzy synth lines, feel like forgotten radio hits from her teen years, daydreams of true love and furtive crushes.
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Shelby is a sardonically sweet Sarah Paulson in a chintzy documentary's dramatic reenactments and a straight-faced Lily Rabe who provides the doc's voiceover in the present.
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There's something magical about the surrealism of the sculpted putti and painted pigs frolicking on the walls and the chintzy floral patterns that bloom across the ceilings.
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Chiptune's thick, chintzy, modular crunch snaps into place with dissonance in the lower end, as if two adjacent notes are playing at once; the technology's simplicity reassures.
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It's extremely embarrassing and chintzy but that was my moment—that bit where she realizes she might never be appreciated for her actual identity with those masks on.
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This is pretty chintzy, but truthfully, I love the tour: Loch Ness is eerily beautiful, with its black water (due to the presence of peat) and craggy bluffs.
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The production, directed by Marina McClure in the Flea's shallow downstairs space, looks chintzy and the young cast can't always handle the tonal variations that the writing demands.
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The pair first collaborated in 2014, on a chintzy Jessie J pop anthem called "Bang Bang," at the height of the battle between Minaj's hip-hop and pop sides.
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Santo Loquasto's costumes and sets for the current production are a little chintzy, not in comparison but in fact, though I liked the music-hall feel of the piece.
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J.C. As bachateros go, Prince Royce is versatile, a singer who embraces a real range of music, from classic ballads to chintzy pop to street-friendly trap and reggaeton.
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The chair was my grandma's, and my most vivid memories of her are her sitting and smoking in it, so I adore it – plus look at the wonderful chintzy fabric!
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You did not curate the perfect workout playlist that could energize even a zombie to want to exercise just to have it all slip away because you're wearing chintzy headphones.
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They zip through everything from the deep grooves of Pepe Bradock, to the ominous clatter of Maurizio, to gloriously chintzy release of Tatsuro Yamashita, without ever sounding contrived or knowing.
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While her general inability to comprehend genre distinctions often conjures chintzy magic, here her duet with Blake Shelton elbows country strumming and big-band horns awkwardly into the same space.
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He looked out at the chintzy dining room and was reminded of childhood holidays spent with his grandmother in Russian sanitariums — industrial vacation destinations that looked like high-rise hospitals.
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But there is no doubt that our current tangle of chintzy, dollar-store Hollywood and DC politics represents one of the silliest and most grotesque political eras in modern history.
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CARYN GANZ "Home Boy, Sister Out" (1 CD or 2 LPs) (Wewantsounds) As an improviser, Don Cherry could make his chintzy pocket trumpet into a stealth vehicle of the sublime.
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A lot has changed for the London-born designer since then, but this season he continued to develop his distinctive aesthetic of head-to-toe chintzy florals and dramatic shapes.
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It's the sort of chintzy stuff that you want to reject, but will bring you to tears in the back of an Uber at the end of a reckless Thursday night.
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In case you're wondering, here's a short list of everything we love: Liberal use of Comic Sans, ugly beveled buttons, chintzy icons, scrolling rainbows, HTML style site sections, and clipart backgrounds.
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Instead, he's been "shuffling around his chintzy resort in Palm Beach grousing to club members about how unfair it is that he's facing an impeachment trial," as Seth Meyers puts it.
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They juxtapose masculine and feminine elements, such as chintzy floral prints hand-painted by Dickely and strict tailoring; elongated silhouettes are rendered in industrial materials like rubberized cotton and black polyester.
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Yet there's something that feels gimmicky, even chintzy, about the show's manipulation of space, time, audio and video — the very stylistic innovations that seemed to set it apart from the superhero pack.
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With these three new speakers, it nice to see Bose catch on to one of the hottest trends in audio, but I still wish the Home Speaker 500 looked a little less chintzy.
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There's a song called "Die or Be Killed" with a chorus that goes "I always wanted to die" that's built around this wonderfully chintzy synth slap-bass sound and some squealing electronic horns.
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But even though Initially the microphone seemed like a chintzy toy, after we set it up and got going, it provided high-quality entertainment on the drive from Santa Cruz to Monterey, California.
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The narcotized daydreams they conjure manage to recall both the worldly exploration of Martin Denny's chintzy exotica and the cosmic bop of Stereolab's future-lounge experiments, without getting too sedentary in their easy-goingness.
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"Megalovania," whose solemnly dinky high-camp urgency sums up the record, stacks no less than four distinct hooks in chintzy percussive-synth mode on top of each other to produce an obscenely catchy concoction.
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Where there were once the rampant pedophile gags of Morning Glory and quasi-intellectual anthropomorphized dinosaurs, there are now chintzy motivational messages from cats sitting in teacups shared ad infinitum on your mother's Facebook wall.
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In 2018, the Brooklyn-based husband-and-wife duo David McGillivray and Rebecca Zhou set out to reinvent a forgotten staple of the 1960s, the housecoat, that long, lightweight robe typically patterned with chintzy florals.
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Massari gives the keys a carnivalesque chromatic workout, favoring blocky horn patches, faux-electric guitar, theatrical snare rolls, and chintzy, toy-like voices; the resulting woozy waltz sounds always moments away from spinning out of control.
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Whenever pop aesthetes assemble spritzy drum machines under chintzy keyboard hooks plus comforting softer washes of electronic texture to blur the edges and evoke light, one might ask whether the resulting music represents commercialism or eroticism.
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The Inspire HR looks sort of like the chintzy cousin of the Alta HR.Photo: Victoria Song (Gizmodo)Rounding out the new products is the kid-centric Fitbit Ace 2, which tweaks and marginally improves upon the Ace.
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Morgan Geist, who is one half of the post-disco D.J. pairing Metro Area and who worked with Ms. Lanza on the shiny "Mezzanine," which updates the chintzy glamour of '80s freestyle music, will open for her.
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I have huge hands so let's all keep that in mind, but these things feel small and chintzy and the motion control gyros don't always center very well depending on how you're moving about with the game.
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Product cultivated a cutesy smallness, as if the songs were chintzy electronic wind-up toys; Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides features longer songs, larger and more whomping hooks, wider and chillier aural spaces, a sweeping emotionalism.
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At one-sixth the size of a standard PS4 and with a cheap plastic cover guarding the controller ports, I found myself thinking of it alternatively as cute or chintzy and still haven't quite made up my mind.
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This powerful – and expensive – smoking grill is more like an outdoor oven than the chintzy charcoal or gas grill you've been using and the unique pellet system adds flavor, sear, and smoke to your hearty cuts of whatever.
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The House of Magic, Drake's altar to the strange, filled with trinkets, collectables, and a chintzy basement featuring zip-wire floating heads (a direct jab at the expensive organized terror of the London Dungeon), came about by chance.
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Often shooting on his trusty Canon or Nizo Super 8 film camera, Myers' home videos capture a less built-up Sydney, before the building of apartment towers and chintzy new developments that are now ubiquitous in these areas.
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These are knowingly naff, archly chintzy ornaments, that might not pertain to the kind of permanence and classicism that the Felt records are both soaked in and radiate, but are still worthy additions to Lawrence's bulging back catalog.
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Championed by Alex Eagle, the owner of the Store, and the design dealer Jermaine Gallacher (who both sell his work in their London boutiques), his pieces are often offbeat interpretations of chintzy suburban décor and imitations of antiquity.
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It's a strange place: an opulent yet chintzy interview location, where a taxidermy bear covered in paisley print looms over the dining room we're in—something Alex Scally, who completes the group, laughs about as we wait for our drinks.
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From the hot-pink open fireplace to the wood-veneer pool table to the chintzy floral banquettes, every design detail at this laid-back Lower East Side restaurant evokes the nostalgia of hanging out in someone's finished basement — in the '70s.
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Flattening something that discretely dynamic into a chintzy game show completely misunderstands why people watch video games at all, which is mostly to marvel at the unbridled excellence of a pro or to sink into the antics and narration of an entertainer.
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Drewchin excitedly recounts the previous afternoon's improvised photoshoot which took place in part in this very room, in which she had employed a high-powered fan and a chintzy fire screensaver to introduce a small amount of chaos into otherwise formal proceedings.
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As pop styles go, Sir Babygirl's is glittery without being pristine: bouncy keyboard loops, theatrically synthesized strings, bursts of chintzy electric distortion, fabulous rhythm guitar hooks, static and fuzz, all crammed into the same space, forced to coexist at risk of explosion.
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Mr. Viallat accomplished that by repeating a single abstract form — a nameless shape somewhere between an amoeba and a smooshed pillow — over and over, for decades, on wildly diverse supports: fabric and newspaper, a sliced-up tent, a stretched umbrella, a chintzy fringed tablecloth.
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The founding stones of Guayaquil were laid at Cerro Santa Ana in 1536, but today it boasts a chintzy promenade of bars and restaurants, nicknamed "Disneyland" by locals, topped with a toy-town ornamental lighthouse that wouldn't look out of place in a Donald Duck production.
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Over the years, she's redone most of the rooms a handful of times, playing with embellishment and pattern ("At one point, it all became very chintzy and braided," she says), but her penchant for French furniture, antique quilts and small-scale, pale-colored florals has never wavered.
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The hilarious mantras on "3 Rules"—including "Never touch your own d***" (censorship his)—are examples of the gleeful wit he always demonstrates and the album version of "Bugatti," a 2014 single originally featuring Pusha T, strips away the guest verse in favor of beautifully chintzy instrumental work.
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Quick snare drums and chintzy keyboard figures in the established rattling-trap style inspire purely sung moments like "Riri," whose barked seal noises prove quite the earworm, and "Pop Man," in which he croons "Wet wet!" persistently and percussively into an echo chamber of moans and purrs and gasps and chirps.
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The lighting was weird, lit like a reality show, and almost every crowd shot focused on what I assume was some Russian celebrity—I think I saw Nikolai Valuev—but my prejudice made me see only executive-level Bratva-types, with their Caesar cuts and Slavic cheekbones and chintzy suits.
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In 2008, mobile computing was stuck in two worlds: bulky, high-powered workhorses like the Lenovo ThinkPad that were technically portable, but a pain to carry around, and chintzy, lightweight plastic netbooks like Asus's line of Eee PCs that could do little more than connect to the internet and run simple software.
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The Good Switchblade-like looks • A raucous V10 engine • Fiendish cornering capabilities The Bad Interior trim is a bit chintzy • Impossible to Bruce Wayne two supermodels into the cabin The Bottom Line Lamborghini's Huracán LP 580-2 might be its entry-level car, but it's also the Italian supercar-maker's finest driving machine.
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But the latest version seeks to do more than just improve upon the chintzy special effects, introducing more discord into the central family (including a marital rift between the parents, played by Molly Parker and Toby Stephens), while turning the hiss-able Dr. Smith into a woman (a very good Parker Posey).
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As likely to dig up old porn soundtracks as she is to play hard-nosed techno and chintzy mood music—she's at her best when she pulls from all three, and more, in the same set—she's developed a reputation for eclecticism that basically allows her lead her dancefloors basically wherever she wants.
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The reason that I've been summoned to his house for the afternoon, a task which is virtually a rite of passage for writers who own a Field Mice album, is because he's on the verge of releasing the fourth Go-Kart Mozart record, the chintzy, synthy Mozart's Mini-Mart(due February 23 on Cherry Red) .
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West Hollywood, its own city as of 1984, is the tony epicenter of Los Angeles' LGBTQ culture; North Hollywood, wedged between the 5, 134, and 170 freeways in the San Fernando Valley, is an annex for television and film industry workers; and Hollywood, whose luxurious hillside estates are concealed by forbidding security gates, is a chintzy tourist-trap.
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If you prefer his equally chintzy synthpop mode, however, as I do, his best albums are I'm Your Man (1988) — which threads a confused, exciting love story around insane novelties like the terrorist-disco anthem "First We Take Manhattan" and the satirically paranoid "Jazz Police" — and The Future (1992), home to the aforementioned "Democracy" and a title track that might as well have predicted the future.
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In a way, a Kardashian musical is the most logical repurposing of Time Square's outdated sex marketplace (they're hot as hell, but it's verboten to admit that you like them) and its disgraced haunted house (they're chintzy, and when the makeup and lighting is just right, they're even a little terrifying), but it didn't have enough of either of those attractions' grime or good humor.
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Using signature prints from his earliest collection through the most recent seasons — a paisley from fall 1997, an ikat from spring 2010, a Chinese dragon motif from fall 2012, a chintzy rose from spring 2000, to name a few — he superimposed Pop Art graphics on top to create a conversation between past and future, both in the clothes and via the woman who wore them.
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There was, for instance, an unpleasant incident a while back at Ballintoy Harbour, the location for the Iron Islands scenes on the show, He'd been on the beach taking a photo with his tour group, all dressed up in cloaks and broadswords, and one of these new tour guides showed up with his own smaller group — plastic swords, chintzy cloaks — and asked if he could get in on the photo.
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