Word: glossing
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...conclusions may be drawn from this story, and both are correct. The fields of asphalt that ordinarily occupy the center of Paris may be called Elysian, but the name is simply a gloss, or an apology, applied to something that is nothing like Eden. Cities tend to create such places (find the tulips in New York City's Madison Square Garden) as a sort of nostalgic glance at the rural world they supplanted. If the farmers had not carted their bucolic protest to Paris on that day, the citizens there, like people in cities everywhere else, would have continued...
...Chechen fighters had been strangely inactive. Moscow's generals attributed their unhindered progress to brilliant new tactics. When the advance bogged down around Christmas at the outskirts of the capital--where the besieging forces have remained ever since, pulverizing the city but making little progress--Moscow put an optimistic gloss on the situation. Through the tame media, Putin declared that everything was proceeding according to plan. Russian forces have made a "breakthrough" in the campaign, reported Defense Minister Igor Sergeyev. The defenders of Grozny are disorganized and panicking, the Russian command announced...