Word: veneered
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There is an educational veneer to Spaces, which offers bold, cheap ways to fight IKEA-fied homogeneity--what executive producer Denise Cramsey calls "the maroon, dark green and oatmealization of America." But what hooks viewers is the race against the clock (the homeowners, helped by a carpenter and crew, pull near all-nighters, sewing and painting like sweatshop laborers) and the personalities...
...LEAP OF FAITH NBC, Thursdays, 8:30 p.m. E.T. The networks have long resented HBO, with its nyah-nyah-ing slogan, "It's not TV. It's HBO." But these network sitcoms are aiming to climb on the HBO buzz wagon. Ellie has a pay-cable veneer--an edgy narrative style (each story unfolds in real time), a cinematic look and no laugh track--but the safe heart of a network show. As a lounge singer of a certain age sleeping with her band's married guitarist, Seinfeld alumna Julia Louis-Dreyfus, above, has a bittersweet charm...
...actually threaten to make the situation in Zimbabwe worse. The United States should consider the pitfalls of election monitors as it debates whether weapons inspectors should be sent back into Iraq. International observers, deployed under the wrong conditions, can give ruling strongmen the one thing that violence cannot: a veneer of legitimacy...
Last week, Israeli security forces seized a boat in the Red Sea loaded with a deadly cargo of weaponry. At a moment when the Middle East is perilously balanced on the verge of open war, this development threatens to remove even the region’s thin veneer of peace. Reports that the 80 tons of weapons, including long-range rockets, were purchased by the Palestinian Authority (PA) support the repeated claims of the Israeli government that PA Chair Yasser Arafat is a dangerous man, ready and willing to resort to terrorism to achieve his aims...
Hold editors’ meeting. Veil intragroup hostility under thin veneer of civility and shooting down each other’s ideas...