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...second act, Billy and Teddy proceed to disrupt the quiet veneer of domestic complacency which characterizes Billy's suburban existence. They do so slowly, artfully--skeletons emerge from the closet of each character in the first act, preparing the audience for Teddy's explosive discoveries in the second act. Rodriguez turns a brilliant performance as Billy's friend from the asylum, whose mercurial energy and neurotic intensity combine with keen wit and perception. As Billy's lawyer in this card-game-turned-trial, Teddy embodies the insanity of the everyday as much as he exposes...
...civilized life is all veneer, as thin as chintz wallpaper and easier to strip. Consider Margaret Murchie, who is the guest of honor along with her new husband, William Damien, heir to an Australian fortune. Margaret has been linked to three mysterious deaths. She was the last person to see alive her grandmother, her schoolteacher and a nun at the convent where she went to atone for the death of the first two. Now she would be happy to dispatch her wealthy mother-in-law, Hilda Damien, who is expected for dessert...
That is why -- despite its veneer of banana-republic brinkmanship -- the current congressional revolt is a return to pre-Reaganite tradition. The President's weather-vane vacillation has forced the House to reaffirm its constitutional role as originator of taxation and spending measures. The result: the eruption of the long-suppressed ideological debate over the size and scope of the Federal Government...
...those luxurious boondoggles, the bureau provides junketeers with a detailed memorandum to submit along with their expense accounts. It drones on for 60 eye-glazing pages and is numbingly titled A Report on European Urban Policy and the State of Local Administrative Affairs. To give the journal a thin veneer of originality, names and dates are changed each year. Yet every report begins "It is impossible to find the right words to describe such a priceless experience . . ." and concludes, "Seeing is believing...
...like many of his apparently liberal positions on higher education, Bok's internationalization drive has been criticized for simply being a thin veneer over a more conservative stance...