Word: garnishings
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...educated middle class through exile or intimidation; chill dissent by suppression; crush peasants and workers with hunger and debts that make progress impossible; let foreign corporations porations drain the country of raw materials; stir in an army that reports only to the dictator and operates through terror and torture; garnish with corruption; combine all ingredients with sponsorship by the world's biggest economic power; simmer 40 years...
Little vegetables were big with caterers, most especially Persianettes, tiny, red, pear-shaped tomatoes that may become the garnish of the year. Veal surpassed beef as the most popular entree selection, but the old American stand-by was to appear in a few new guises. Filet mignon stuffed with lobster, a classy variation on surf and turf, was created by Columbia Catering for several clients. The most intricate beef invention was presented at the birthday party for Carolyn Deaver, wife of outgoing Presidential Aide Michael Deaver, who is the Administration's gastronome-in-residence. Served in the Glorious Cafe...
...Painters garnish the edge with daubs, cutouts, even cutlery...
...curators, Margaret Morgan Grasselli and Pierre Rosenberg, with the help of Nicole Parmantier and other art historians, have condensed the existing scholarship on Watteau, together with a great deal of their own, into a catalogue that now becomes a standard work. It shows no trace of the puffy garnish of superlatives considered obligatory for blockbuster shows in U.S. museums. The authors discriminate severely: "The execution lacks energy and seems pasty," runs the note on one painting from the Hermitage in Leningrad. "The figures are unsteady, the faces have no character or charm...
Such utterances are less interesting than the oeuvre they garnish. Kitaj's recent drawings, particularly his pastels, are of marvelous density. The firm boundary line, probing and circumscribing, pays its respects to Degas, as does the broken, emphatic texture of the pastel, sometimes built up to a thick coat of peacock-hued dust. There is nothing theoretical about these drawings, no "as if-such as one might expect from an artist turning, at midcareer, away from modernist fragmentation. Solid, chunky, driven, greedy: these adjectives apply to Kitaj's appropriation of the world-particularly the bodies of women-with...