Word: hollowing
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Like all satire, Costigan's humor dwells on the difference between appearance and reality, but the appearances he mocks are obviously hollow, Costigan thinks it's rich that muscular, America-firster Emil is a queer, that steely, sultry Mavis always leaves her door unlocked in hotels, and that shuffling, knock-kneed Edward is the sexual object of both public demigods. So, stars are phonies, so what...
There was plenty of evidence to prove that pious Soviet denials of anti-Jewish activity are hollow. The most topical was a book called Judaism Without Embellishment, published last year by the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. One cartoon from this "history" of Judaism showed a man with an exaggeratedly hooked nose described as a Zionist leader serving the "Hitlerite" invaders of the Ukraine...
Within the past year collective bargaining in the railroad industry has become a completely hollow phrase denoting frustration and immobility. Despite the efforts of several impartial mediation boards, the railroads's five-year-old work rules dispute was thrust into Congress last summer when the first peace time arbitration law in history was needed to prevent a crippling national walkout...
MARY BAUERMEISTER - Bonino, 7 West 57th. In the forefront of the frantic search for new materials, a young German artist creates sensuous surfaces with polished pebbles, drinking straws, hollow shells, wood. She proves with "linen sculptures" that look like modern abstractions of Grandma's old quiltwork that she can sew - and prettily, too. Through April...
Instant Poison. "When it is irritated," says the University of Miami's Zoologist Charles E. Lane, "the cell extends the hollow thread, and when the barb has penetrated the skin, it squeezes a tiny drop of poison the length of the tube." The instant a tentacle touches a bather, hundreds of cells go into action in a fraction of a second...