Word: cosmeticized
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Are the current disinvestments by the transnational giants and by other American corporations real or cosmetic? The major corporations that have pulled out recently have coupled their statements about the questionable economic state of South Africa with clear statements about their abhorrence of apartheid, their unwillingness to remain directly involved...
Auguste Rodin called John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) the "Van Dyck of our times." Sargent was the unrivaled recorder of male power and female beauty in a day that, like ours, paid obsessive court to both. He could make old money look dashing and paint the newest cotton-reel magnate...
Harvard claims that the costly external capital improvements were necessary, yet many seem entirely cosmetic. The sudden large outlay for improvements was certainly increased by the repairs being long-overdue, a result of systematic long-term neglect, about which tenants challenged Harvard University 10 years ago; timely repairs would have...
Some tenants are facing yet a third increase, bringing new rents as high as $682 for the same size of apartment. Harvard Real Estate has been gutting units as they are vacated, then renovating and remodelling them to the tune of about $18,000 each. Like the external capital improvements...
That sense of the ominous haunts Brooke Astor's novel: the worst is waiting to occur immediately after the curtain falls on the kind of fiction that has been out of style since the period it concerns. In this dry, sparkling comedy of manners, reminiscent of Edith Wharton's lighter...