Because he thought Fred's comment was tacky, Larry got up on his high horse.

Barnett Newman had a famous quote that the impulse of modern art is the desire to destroy beauty which was considered bourgeois or tacky.

OK, so now we're in the second row, and we get our row information from the first vector and let me do a red that I never use because I think it's kind of tacky, this red right here.

yes. isn't that just too ridiculous? yes, yes, it is. oh, well, listen wouldn't you like to have me describe her to you? well... oh, let me, let me. she had masses of blonde hair and she wore one of those frumpy little blouses with a tacky little brooch at the bosom and one of those dreadful peasant skirts. but the funny thing was that she handed you a drink.