Word: veneering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...should be studying for midterms, unless you thrive on aggravation. But if you've just unpacked your new multimedia system and are eager to find software that will put the machine through its paces, consider Club Dead. If you like MTV, you'll certainly appreciate this game's campy veneer...
...acting, however, could hardly be improved upon. Especially fine are the performances of Jerome Preston Bates as Floyd, who makes us care about the tortured soul that lies beneath a veneer of strut and swagger; Viola Davis, an eloquent and unaffected Vera; and Ruben Santiago-Hudson, who plays the sweet-natured, joyous Canewell as a sort of Mercutio to the lovers' Romeo and Juliet...
...prejudice and promote class warfare. They are fostering an "us vs. them" division between "normal Americans" (the middle class) and the "parasites" (the poor), while the wealthiest quietly continues to amass a greater share of the economic pie. The American principles they claim to support are but a thin veneer for their ugly intentions...
...second movement of the Sibelius reveals the worst flaws in the less-than-optimal engineering by Sony, which seemingly has Midori buried in the middle of the wood-winds. Without fail, Mehta produces the polished yet superficial orchestral veneer that one has come to expect from him, not helping matters at all. I suspect that Midori is attempting a subtler rendition of this concerto than normally heard, but if so, her efforts are not obvious enough for my taste. I do not encounter the "Nordic winter landscape" that Sibelius was said to strive for, so much as a vast sonic...
...Orpheus Descending, the playwright attempts to lay bare the cancerous hatreds lurking beneath the veneer of Southern gentility...