Word: glossing
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Veolia's history is no less complicated. After 1994 chairman Jean-Marie Messier moved Compagnie Générale des Eaux full steam into the media business, but his empire cracked after a high-gloss purchase of Seagram to form Vivendi Universal. After Messier's ignominious fall in 2002 in a morass of debt, the environmental-services businesses spun off and dropped the tainted name Vivendi to become Veolia...
...part personal narrative, it reflects the allegiances of its author, Stéphane Reynaud, a self-taught chef who was born into the meat business. "I love the pig and like the pork," he writes. While his musings about pigs are affectionate, Reynaud, 40, avoids sentimentality by refusing to gloss over the animal's journey from pen to plate. Instead he makes a feature of it, opening the book with a chapter titled "Pig-Killing Time at Saint-Agrève" (his mountain hometown in the Ardèche region of France) that is a frank, celebratory portrayal...
...will never eat an apple with a waxy gloss that is shinier than my coffee table. I grow organic veggies in the summer and supplement those by buying organic vegetables from local farmers' markets. In northern Illinois, there's very little local fruit available that has not been sprayed with pesticides. So all winter I buy organic fruit; sometimes in the summer the pesticide-free apples on my neighbor's tree are the only local ones available. Lori Indovina-Valus, McHenry...
...guess what? Even after all those stunning developments, we still have the whole month of March to gloss over exhibition game box scores, needlessly fret about fifth starters - and, let's be honest, itch for opening day to mercifully arrive...
...possible Jolie was using her clothes to express a hint of conscience on the red carpet? While the very notion may still be a bit of a shock to the fashion world, it is just the gloss on the very surface of a trend that promises to infiltrate all levels of consumerism and design, one that analysts say is a wave of the future to the tune of billions and billions of dollars...