Word: cosmeticized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus urban renewal will have only a cosmetic effect on our cities, and the billions of dollars invested will be lost, unless it is combined with comprehensive programs of low-cost housing, education and social services designed to bring the marginal people and businesses back into the main stream of...
Bigger Allowances. It is quite an existence. Teen-agers now own 20% of all the cars sold in the U.S.; and 7,000,000 with driving licenses presumably find wheels when they want them. Teenagers spend more than $1.5 billion a year for entertainment. Though they comprise only 11% of...
Though the changes are more cosmetic than cosmic, any loosening of East Germany is an improvement, an ambiguous mood summed up in West German Chancellor Erhard's reaction to the pass agreement: "The German people will certainly feel genuine joy and satisfaction, but there's no cause for...
"Now I'm a sculptor. Isn't it silly?" he said, but he didn't mean it. To him, his style of sculpturing is unalloyed joy, and all around Rube Goldberg's studio the happy evidence is beginning to pile up. There is a balloon-breasted...
a cordovan shoe glows red and blue along its welt, the arches of bare feet purple in the corrosive illumination that gives simple poses a seductive superreality. His images are lush with cosmetic painterliness; his white backgrounds are impastos of frosting.