Word: veneered
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CABARET has nothing beneath its glossy veneer but another veneer. The musical version of / Am a Camera strikes notes of originality in its production but merely plays the old saws in its book and score...
...information--the results of endless months of interviews--was no license to interpret repeatedly during his often poorly-written narrative. The result is not, as Manchester hoped it would be, "contemporary history." Any kind of history is a weave of event and evaluation, but the evaluation must have a veneer of rationality. Manchester is simply unable to make sense most of the time. When, for example, Kennedy visited the LBJ Ranch shortly after after the 1960 election, he reluctantly forced himself to shoot a deer because, Manchester says, was a national leader he was obliged to resolve any doubts about...
...sensuously ugly, with heavy features that had the thick texture of Dromedary dates. As he began to age, his art more and more portrayed the image of an old man teased by willing sprites. Only fetishes could further inflame his nudes; lesbian poses and green stockings added a salacious veneer to his final fleshy visions...
...before our eyes a la Restoration. Lewis Smith's costumes do more than dress the play -- they brighten it immeasurably and sometimes delineate the characters more than the actors do. Robert Chapman, the director, has taught his cast Restoration manners, which some have learned better than others. Applying a veneer takes time -- the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London uses up about a year in training actors for this kind of comedy -- and Chapman has had to make his actors feel at home in fops' clothing in about a month. He has paced the play at a good trot...
...someone once said in another connection: "How thin is the veneer of civilization." FRANK E. A. SANDER Professor...