Word: veneered
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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This past week’s assaults were an unfortunate way to launch the new school year. Students typically energetic with fresh enthusiasm for the fall were reminded that Cambridge’s gentrified veneer conceals a darker reality of city life. A new year has arrived, and once again undergraduates are confronted with breaches of Harvard’s security and safety mechanisms. But these events are not necessarily cause for the same kind of outrage witnessed last fall, as the past year has brought thorough changes for the better...
...must work hard to resist the Sopranos comparison. If the show has taught anything, it's that beneath the garish veneer of suburban New Jersey family life steams a sewer of betrayal. But the comparison is actually unfair--to the Soprano clan. Bad as he is, Tony would never pull something as bumbling--and psychosexually crude--as what Charles Kushner, a real estate impresario and one of the Democratic Party's most generous political donors, is alleged to have done to his sister...
...Many young designers, including Lian Ng of San Francisco-based Publique Living, are molding and braiding wood. "There is a lot more use of wood in nontraditional applications," says Ng, a former graphic designer who creates lamps out of strips of maple or walnut veneer that are then woven into braided patterns. "With so many new products, I wanted something that is innovative yet familiar at the same time...
...James Dieter, a designer whose company, dform, sells wood-veneer lamps cut into interlocking patterns, attributes the popularity of natural materials to improvements in manufacturing. "There are really amazing things that can be molded with wood," he says...
...Elections in the Philippines have rarely been honest and peaceful. You have to wonder about the motives of politicians who are willing to spend millions of pesos to win a government post that provides only a small salary. Most Philippine politicians hide their personal goals behind a veneer of public service. The Philippine electorate cannot be entirely blamed for the resulting corruption, because voters often don't have very good candidates to choose from. Leo A. Barrosa Makati City, the Philippines...