Word: veneering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were consistently inventive and spry, displaying a constant buzz of fantasy and a growing mastery of color. Sometimes, as in Gaudi Cup, 1972, the intensity of the glazes seems to have literally broken down the form of the ceramic into tiny glowing shards. This sense of color as a veneer on a flat surface gets turned into a form of Cubism, rather as the Dutch Constructivist Gerrit Rietveld in the 1920s abstracted the shape of a chair into a penitential parody of itself. Not only Cubism gets its share of parody, but other styles as well -- Frank Stella's paintings...
...this self-styled "Underground" group from New York city--beyond its unlikely combination of skinhead veneer and pedestrian "pop" music--fails to offer the chic innovation its style implies...
Despite the Crimson's repeated challenges, the Bears maintained the cool veneer of a team that had already wrapped up the title...
Despite the spare plot, Sweetback has a lot to say. Under a veneer of sex and violence, Van Peebles is telling the story of an alienated Black underclass...
...plan after the President returned from his hapless trip to Japan. Their strategy: take some blame for the economy, stress Bush's longtime ties to the state and, except for some well-placed reminders about the Desert Storm triumph, avoid foreign policy. Masking his patrician demeanor beneath a folksy veneer, Bush began dropping his final g's and r's with a vengeance, substituting "fixin' ta" for "going to" and quoting the lyrics of country- music songs...