<adj.all> a cheap showy rhinestone bracelet a splashy half-page ad
covered with patches of bright color
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Splashy \Splash"y\, a. Full of dirty water; wet and muddy, so as be easily splashed about; slushy.
But Toronto Sun Publishing Co. purchased the Post in 1983 from Houston's Hobby family and overhauled it, adding splashy color and a tougher news stance.
You usually hear that nobody wins such fights, but this was one that nobody lost, unless you count motel keepers in Florida and Arizona and municipalities in those states unwise enough to bankroll splashy training facilities for clubs.
The result was a gussied-up "Boris," slick and splashy (the Coronation Scene really got Rimsky excited, adding bells left and right).
Another splashy airline deal, Trump's $7 billion proposal to buy AMR Corp., parent of industry leader American Airlines, also was called off.
Steven Soderbergh had a splashy debut three years ago with "sex, lies and videotape," his fresh and funny movie about relationships.
Lacroix's clothes with the draped fichu shoulder, the big hoods or head scarves and collars over tiny skirts are great on the runway, but perhaps not at every party, no matter how splashy.
And Mr. Gartner may have a head start: he currently is a top news executive of Gannett Co. and its USA Today, the splashy newspaper that copied many TV techniques.
The Aug. 26 New York Times Magazine carried a splashy ad touting "Leslie Fay Women," a pitch refinement that has helped enhance the image of a line long associated with staid matrons.
The Midler sound-alike ad ran in 1986 as part of a splashy pitch for Ford's Mercury Sable.
Turner's main interest is believed to be a splashy debut for its new cable channel, Turner Network Television, slated for an October start, when the Olympics would be nearing completion.
Worst of all was the Second Piano Sonata (1990), a catalogue of meandering ideas, thumping clusters and splashy pianistic cliches, which suggested a composer ill-at-ease with the keyboard.
That disruption comes as Nordstrom's, another upscale department store, has made a splashy debut next door.
The Enquirer and Weekly World News are splashy weekly tabloids.
The splashy tabloid BZ (the initials stand for Berliner Zeitung) has daily circulation of about 370,000, including 90,000 copies sold outside the greater Berlin area, Mr. von Viereck said.
Nearly seven weeks after The National made a splashy debut, central New Jersey commuters are finding they can sleep in and still get a copy of the daily sports newspaper for their 40-mile train ride to New York.
The latest look is called retro, for retrospective, a back to the future concept that revives the splashy patterns of the Forties and Fifties.
To attract more attention, many of the larger California sportswear companies have launched expensive and splashy advertising campaigns.
A Virginia center for high technology, criticized by some for being too costly and secretive, opened Wednesday with a splashy display of gadgets designed for business, medicine and the military.
For one thing, they look different: They have high-quality monitors with bigger screens that can display lots of splashy colors and a variety of detailed charts and graphs.
The splashy debut didn't go unnoticed at the CBOE.
Faced with increased competition from splashy new fashion magazines, it found that many people considered Harper's a faded magazine for older women.
My older sisters and I would have contests to see who could tell the best poems." In recent years the Berlin Film Festival has favored splashy, Hollywood-style productions after years of honoring art-oriented works of little commercial draw.
"We've pulled together a number of different events, but they all work together to create a total marketing effect." Prodigy says it was attracted to Time because it offered a splashy venue to get out the message that its service is available nationwide.