"This is where my career has gotten to," Mr. Appleby, the co-anchor of News 12's 5 P.M. news program with Sara Arnold since 1984, mused as he hefted his favorite, a blue mug with a gaudy gold 12 on one side and a 24 on the other.
Their uniforms were a gaudy gold, white, and green and the hats were of the historic pillbox variety with a white B surrounded by a golden triangle.
Nearby is the fish souq, an interesting place to wander even if you're not buying, and across Ave de l'Istiqlal, is the jewellery souq, a small area of jewellery shops with everything from heavy Berber beads to gaudy gold.
Super Market Get disoriented at the six-century-old Grand Bazaar (Yaglikcilar Caddesi, Beyazit), which has about 60 lanes holding 4,000-odd shops packed to the rafters with tea sets, gaudy gold, backgammon boards and enough water pipes for a Cheech and Chong marathon.
Nothing like the gaudy gold bands around Saturn, but impressive in their own, more subdued glory.
His cigarette lighter was gold, monogrammed, innocently gaudy.
