Word: veneered
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Ever since the end of World War II, when Emperor Hirohito was stripped of his divinity, Japan's royals have used life's milestones to strengthen their bonds with a skeptical Japanese public. Beneath the veneer of respect and admiration for the royals, there is still residual resentment over the role of Hirohito in Japan's wartime aggression. "I don't like the royal family very much," says a 27-year-old journalist who turned down an assignment to cover the royal birth because of her distaste for the imperial system. "It's nice to celebrate the birth, since they...
...George Hoynigen-Huene and Horst P. Horst, two of the most famous fashion photographers of the twentieth century, shows us what glamour really is. The Look presents us with a charming and uncomplicated view of history that glosses over the tumultuous events of the past century with a veneer of elegance and style. This exhibit does not even pretend to be political, and once you get over the fact that you are being presented with the frothy side of history, you will be in sheer heaven...
...then delivered a speech similar to one I have heard I-don’t-know-how-many-times. It is the tale of an America whose idealism is but a veneer covering more sinister motives, an America whose history is stained by acts of aggression and imperialism, an America governed by a handful of cynical men in love not with democracy but with power...
...less about the sanctity of the ABM treaty than the harm its demise might do to Russia's standing in the world and his image at home. Analysts in most capitals, including Moscow, think he's bargaining for everything he can get before he says O.K. He needs the veneer of equal dialogue, and the sweeteners could be costly--no NATO expansion; keeping quiet as Russia continues economic ties to Iraq and Iran...
...last thing that anyone in the government, anyone in law enforcement and above all any of McVeigh's surviving victims could abide was anything that might give him satisfaction or lend his theories of moral equivalence a veneer of legitimacy. They wanted to take away his platform. Most were ready for him to die, and the execution had the makings of an awful circus: 1,600 reporters were booking rooms in Terre Haute, Ind., for next Wednesday. "Good morning, America, it's time to kill a killer, but first, this is Today." All those cameras, all those talking heads...