Word: varnish
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...cemetery of the North Vietnamese aggressors"), although the region was lost. At the fashionable Cercle Sportif Francais, center of the social life of the wealthy Saigonese, champagne was served as usual beside the greenlined swimming pool. At the Club Nautique de Saigon, racing shells got another coat of varnish, as though the joys of summer would never end. The front gate of the My Canh restaurant, where two Viet Cong Claymore mines killed 48 diners in 1965, was being painted a sparkling aquamarine...
...felt lacquered from head to foot, like that naked ephebe, the bright clou of a pagan procession, who died of dermal asphyxia in his coat of golden varnish...
...with tints of twilight as it has begun, yet the tones have become muddied, and stand out strongly against the light-colored background, raised hands with spread fingers slowly lower to the dancers' sides. The mood cools as twilight ends; the imagery remains vivid, a drawing now sprayed with varnish...
...approximately 3,000%?and no one is going to read all this mass anyway." Frederick Nolting, former ambassador to Saigon, argued that in some cases the truth of what happened is even worse than the Pentagon papers make it appear. "If anything, the published records tend to varnish over these crucial events or make them less offensive and damaging to those actually involved...
...five and a half months that the picture has been out of sight, hidden away in a back room of Wildenstein's Manhattan gallery, the Met's chief restorer, Hubert von Sonnenburg, has wrought some minor miracles. He cleaned off the aging varnish, discovering a new richness of skin tones, transforming Juan's lace collar to a blazing white, and revealing the background as a rich orchestration of grays rather than the rather dim greenish cast it had had. More important, he found that a 1½ in. margin...