Word: veneered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fellow Midwesterner. Another thin reed: the possibility that indictments flowing from the Iran-contra probe would somehow slow Bush. Dole was all the more frustrated by his conviction, shared by more disinterested pols, that Bush was winning the nomination for the wrong reasons, that beneath the new veneer of strength old weaknesses festered, waiting to undermine Republican prospects in the fall. Nonetheless, Bush had finally achieved real political momentum, more substantial than his preppie and premature pronouncement in 1980 that his campaign had the "Big Mo," shortly before Reagan rolled over him in a series of primary victories...
...this the result of a hidden conspiracy formulated by white members of the Admissions Committee. who fear an Asian dominated college? I don't think One only needs to look beneath the veneer of statistics to see that the Admissions process, like the applicants it deals with, is more than just a matter of black and white...
...rude, I'm overbearing," Downey admits. But he insists such tactics are needed to "break away the Madison Avenue veneer that all these experts come on the show with nowadays. You get them angry enough, they'll blow their stack and tell you what they really think." The show's producers say Downey's abrasive style fills a gap left by the departure of Joe Pyne and other strident talk stars of the '60s. Though Downey's audience outside the New York City area is limited to about 14 million cable homes that receive WWOR, there is already talk...
...certainly got the physique for it, but he's also got the charm down pat. After all, if Stanley's such a boor, why would anyone fall-and remain-madly in love with him? Gardner answers that question by making himself attractive and intelligent underneath the uncouth veneer. Ethan Mintz as a friend of Stanley's who falls in love with Blanche is equally superb, though his accent is practically nonexistent...
Those who watched the Iran and Bork hearings were reminded of how inadequate a capsule summary can be if you've seen the movie. Less familiar committee members -- Inouye, Hamilton, Mitchell, Specter, Simpson -- appealed just because their humanity hadn't vanished behind a professional veneer. They were earnest, perhaps a little verbose, sometimes eloquent, decidedly human, and a welcome change from the usual Washington sound-bite sophisticate...