Word: veneered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They are willing to put the veneer on the department, but not the substance behind it," he added...
...this play rather interesting. Even now, the crudeness with which Wycherly has Horner deflate all the talk of honor and the false morality tossed off pro forma by the other characters is a bit shocking, and in 1675 it must have been downright obscene. Through Horner, Wycherly punctures the veneer of London society and shows that the underlying motivations of all these "noble" people are sex and greed, made vulga by the artificial gentility which tries to hide them from view. What makes the country wife so refreshing is her total lack of artifice and her good-hearted gusto...
...modern designs to rival the dominant idioms of 18th century Georgian and 19th century Beaux-Arts by the Potomac? There was not much to see. The preferred manner, in a low-horizon city dominated by L'Enfant's neoclassical plan, was Beaux-Arts thinly covered with a "modernist" veneer: the cake minus the icing. From the postwar office blocks to the alternately coarse and mincing frigidity of the 1971 Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the past 30 years of Washington architecture have been a prolonged failure of the bureaucratic imagination. There have been one or two notable exceptions, such...
...more closely. A little old, maybe, but that spark of wit was all that counted. The baggy, slightly rumpled suit, the black lace-ups, the slight paunch (was it all just a hologram?) could not conceal the powerful, massive frame which lay beneath it all. It was a stage veneer, nothing more; surely, this was a man who deserved Respect. I pumped his hand earnestly...
...solid, interpretive performances of Shakespeare and other classics. When Cooper says "interpretive," he clearly means it--after all, Shakespeare's Viennese setting of the play has been switched to the nineteenth century, because Cooper feels it's a closer-to-home example of a corrupt society under a veneer of propriety such as that in which the play unfolds. Besides corruption, "Measure for Measure" deals with questions of power and politics, mistaken identity and the discovery of one's sexuality--a heady mixture, no doubt, no matter where it's set. At the Hasty Pudding Theater, 12 Holyoke Street, tonight...