Word: glossing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shamir tried unconvincingly to put a positive gloss on events. "These matters contain nothing new," he said of the amendments. "We did not alter one iota of the peace initiative." Yet Shamir's labored efforts at spin control could neither disguise the fact that he had sacrificed his fledgling peace plan to his own political survival nor hide the painful truth that as long as that is his primary aim, Shamir will be vulnerable to right-wing pressure...
...upset that the government ordered a halt to work on a segment of the line. Fears were further heightened last month when The New Yorker magazine published a series on "The Hazards of Electromagnetic Fields." Author Paul Brodeur charged utility companies and public health officials with trying to gloss over the threat to health posed by power lines and computer terminals...
With his concern for traditional workmanship and his devotion to organic simplicity, Nakashima tends to be disdainful of many of the latest generation of craftspeople. "They're trying to be Picassos," he says. "They've got all the ego and glitz and high gloss of modern art. But crafts don't need that. | They can stand up by themselves...
...comedy . . . it's a psychodrama . . . it's Batman! From the director and star of Beetlejuice comes a dead-serious gloss on the cave-dwelling superhero. Its producers will be happy, in this summer of the sequels, if moviegoers of the future remember Tim Burton's movie as Batman I. -- Broken Bat: the film reviewed...
Speaking with the same bluntness heard at past party plenums, Gorbachev did not gloss over the country's continuing shortages in food and consumer goods, but he also contended that many Soviets had forgotten how to work and "had * got used to the fact that they are often paid just for coming to work." His harshest words were targeted at bumbling bureaucrats. Gorbachev told how one ministry had imported almost 30 million medical syringes without ensuring that there were needles to go with them...