Word: veneered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...longings undo the hard work that has gone before, and the final epiphany-the revelation that there is no revelation-is too dim to illuminate Nobody's Angel. McGuane has not so much made the Old West new as buried many of the romantic myths under a modern veneer of laconic prose and cowboy Weltschmerz. Fitzpatrick, and apparently McGuane, believes that quadrupeds do not disappoint like bipeds. The trouble is, novels with more affection for the equine than the human tend to gallop only for a short stretch. And then, all too frequently, they pull up lame. -By Richard...
When wife Tekla (Jody Barrett), replaces Gustav as Adolf's antagonist the mode of combat shifts. The actors battle through a veneer of lover's games, but they bring out the levels of manipulation and resentment behind the tenderness...
...past few years, some dentists have added another step: bonding a thin laminate veneer, a prefabricated plastic shield much like an artificial fingernail, to the front of the tooth. Even with a veneer, the cost per tooth is one-third to a half that of capping...
However the veneer debate is resolved, dentists report a rapid increase in bonding's popularity. Says Ronald Goldstein of Atlanta: "My practice used to be 70% crown and bridgework and 30% bonding. Now it is the reverse...
...research team, he photographed some houses that manage an air of innocent sweetness despite their myriad incongruities. These are the happy accidents of design. But Vergara has also documented many flamboyant temples of vulgarity: a Cape Cod cottage on Chicago's South Side, wrapped in garishly colored stone veneer, white wrought-iron tracery and striped aluminum awnings; a semidetached gilded castle in Bayonne, N.J., concocted from pendages; and the astonishing acrobatic stance of a new room cantilevered from the roof of a bungalow in Birmingham. These transformations are a spontaneous expression of the "complexity and contradiction in architecture" that...