Word: veneered
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Most of the time, I try to hide this habit under a veneer of respectability—stacking a New Yorker on top of a New York, or nodding agreeably at what Cindy Adams has to say about poor Winona Ryder’s rehabilitation while standing next to the World News section at the Coop newsstand. And even there, celebrity-mania gives you a different way of looking at the world: Sure, Dick Cheney is running our country and President Bush is fighting his father’s war, but, more importantly, have you noticed how this administration...
...Makes it easier to maintain thin veneer of heterosexuality...
...Whether change will be deep or lasting remains unclear. The countryside of North Korea is a veneer of pastoral isolation masking severe poverty and privation. Small hamlets of white-washed cottages nestle between rice paddies and corn fields, where teams of farmers still work with hoes and sickles. Hardly a tractor can be found, though truckloads of soldiers ramble down the narrow roads. At the Grand People's Study House in Sinuiju, students stare at computers equipped with Microsoft Internet Explorer, but with no connection to the Web, they listlessly surf the library's own site. At one dimly...
...After thirty-five years, it's about time Kim Deitch gets his due. The rich ideas and beautiful cartooning of "Boulevard of Broken Dreams," should be just the work to do it. While Deitch likes to explore the seamy, adult world behind the delightful veneer of kiddy pop culture, the book's central theme becomes the transporting power of great Art - even in the form of a cartoon. In the final pages, a tour de force wherein Deitch mixes three different planes of cartoon storytelling, the normally malevolent Waldo has the final...
...Villagers in Bena will tell you they are Christians, but their faith seems a thin veneer over more ancient rites and beliefs. The steep-pitched thatched roofs of their teakwood huts are topped with the bhaga and ngadhu, totems symbolizing female and male. The former looks like a miniature of the distinctive huts' roofline, the latter a kind of umbrella. "The bhaga is a symbol of a room that holds everything a family owns. It means fertility and hope for an abundant harvest," says Dara. "The ngadhu symbolizes man, who protects the family." A concatenation of jagged megaliths, some more...