overlush

Despite their best and most earnest intentions, the drama's young leads were foiled by its flawed scripting and overlush staging and performance style.

Wallace offers an exemplary image, combining the skull and roses in Infinite Jest: At the height of his obsession this one synthetic-narc-addicted kid came in who refused to be called by anything but his street name, Skull, and lasted only like four days, but who'd been a walking exhibition of high-regret ink--both arms tattooed with spiderwebs at the elbows, on his fishy--white chest a naked lady with the same kind of overlush measurements Ewell remembered from the pinball machines of his Watertown childhood.