gaudy

Four years after Lincoln Riley arrived at USC amid gaudy promises to return the football program to national prominence, well, two words.

“Let her sell some of her gaudy rings to pay for the trip, then! Someone, get me a knife! I will chop off those crooked fingers myself!”

And there was his new man in an ill-fitting suit and gaudy tie, puffing on a pipe like a kid with a theater prop.

Baken and Baitz’s previous effort coagulated into some sorta cultural critique about the nation going to Hell, while “All’s Fair” celebrates some of the people sending us there in a shameless parade of gaudy excess.

During a broadcast this week of “The Five,” Democratic strategist Jessica Tarlov took aim at the president’s plan to build a grand ballroom in the White House, calling it “gaudy and self-indulgent.”