Many are pretty tacky: full of plastic flowers, fake stained-glass windows and doll's-house pews.
"Back then it was related to something a bit dressy or tacky, " he said.
"It's so easy, with red, white and blue, to make something look tacky, " he said.
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The word "tacky" gets thrown around a lot among posters on wedding website message boards.
Equal parts tacky and titillating, the convention's myriad offerings--from brassieres to Burn's booth--satisfied all comers.
British film critics slated the London-based drama, with the Guardian's Peter Bradshaw calling it "dumb and tacky".
The mostly male gamblers, however, wear tacky windbreakers, polyester pants and golf shirts.
As Mr. Ross has envisioned it, people wear tacky outfits, have fluorescent hair and wear lots of gold eyeshadow.
The rooms are modestly furnished, and chairs still sport their tacky plastic coverings.
Even samba connoisseurs can afford the excruciating fun of sentimental or tacky music.
The star of those tacky old Japanese horror films now gets a tacky new Hollywood horror film all to himself.
Across from it stands the Versace safety-pin dress, tacky yes, but so memorably worn, in 1994, by the actress Elizabeth Hurley.
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Its ornate pavilions are still strangely beautiful, but the park itself has grown ramshackle and is crowded with tacky fairground attractions.
Writers, artists and intellectuals joined guidebook authors in directing visitors' steps and sentiments away from the tacky and toward the transcendent.
Walk along the boardwalk and take in sites like barnacle-covered piers, tacky souvenir shops, aggressive fry-stealing seagulls and ferries cruising the bay.
Yet the Malibu is so profoundly unimpressive overall, and downright tacky on the inside, that it has turned into a rental car.
Homemade Web pages with flashing sirens and tacky text were more authentic.
To get attention, they experimented with tacky ads featuring skimpily clad women.
Raffles, too, has become a smarter ghost of its former self a rather tacky tourist haunt serving Singapore Slings by the sickly pitcher.
Bregga means tacky, and in Brazil refers to music in poor taste.
Walk among the tourist traps selling goods from the cheap and tacky to the better quality linens and it is a regular comedy show.
Its determined casinos and ticky-tacky nightspots have spawned a gangland war in recent years that has scared residents far more than the impending handover.
The moment has been pilloried widely in the British media, tacky and over the top they all think, but is it just sour grapes?
Get put on hold often enough, wander through enough retail stores or tacky cocktail lounges, and sooner or later its limpid strains will caress you.
Wear feathers in public--as I occasionally have--and people tend to assume that (a) You are an adorable eccentric or (b) You are ridiculous and tacky.
To get attention, they used tacky ads featuring skimpily clad women.
This year's tacky new variant: supersized claims for phone tax refunds.
But making British seaside towns less tacky might attract higher-spending tourists.
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Decades later, Kael glossed over these early efforts at writing as youthful caprice, the intellectual equivalent of a tacky butterfly tattoo from some wild long-ago summer.
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