Word: veneering
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...else fails, there's one last surgical approach: total knee replacement. It's a major operation that involves removing the worn-away knee cap, replacing it with a plastic one and resurfacing the adjacent bones with plastic and metal veneer. It requires months of postsurgical physical therapy, but doctors report that the operation is up to 90% effective. Or at least they think...
...living wage’s opposition began to erode the thin veneer of liberalism that shrouds Harvard’s deepest secret—its inner core of fiscal conservatism. Yes, students at the college are liberal, but only socially. But being liberal is more than supporting women’s equality or gay rights. To be truly liberal and progressive, you’d better be willing to toss aside more than just your parents’ stodgy views on race in America. You’ve got to toss aside corporate profits, individual wealth and, yes, rational minimum...
...That's a development that has been consciously encouraged by the Catholic Church in the years since Pope John Paul II's historic 1998 visit. And for now, at least, Castro appears inclined to reluctantly tolerate such activity. His objective in doing so may be simply to create a veneer of acceptability for his regime in the face of human rights criticisms, but the process may nonetheless set in motion forces beyond the control of the communist party...
There is an educational veneer to Spaces, which offers bold, cheap ways to fight IKEA-fied homogeneity--what executive producer Denise Cramsey calls "the maroon, dark green and oatmealization of America." But what hooks viewers is the race against the clock (the homeowners, helped by a carpenter and crew, pull near all-nighters, sewing and painting like sweatshop laborers) and the personalities...
...LEAP OF FAITH NBC, Thursdays, 8:30 p.m. E.T. The networks have long resented HBO, with its nyah-nyah-ing slogan, "It's not TV. It's HBO." But these network sitcoms are aiming to climb on the HBO buzz wagon. Ellie has a pay-cable veneer--an edgy narrative style (each story unfolds in real time), a cinematic look and no laugh track--but the safe heart of a network show. As a lounge singer of a certain age sleeping with her band's married guitarist, Seinfeld alumna Julia Louis-Dreyfus, above, has a bittersweet charm...