Word: veneering
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...actually threaten to make the situation in Zimbabwe worse. The United States should consider the pitfalls of election monitors as it debates whether weapons inspectors should be sent back into Iraq. International observers, deployed under the wrong conditions, can give ruling strongmen the one thing that violence cannot: a veneer of legitimacy...
Last week, Israeli security forces seized a boat in the Red Sea loaded with a deadly cargo of weaponry. At a moment when the Middle East is perilously balanced on the verge of open war, this development threatens to remove even the region’s thin veneer of peace. Reports that the 80 tons of weapons, including long-range rockets, were purchased by the Palestinian Authority (PA) support the repeated claims of the Israeli government that PA Chair Yasser Arafat is a dangerous man, ready and willing to resort to terrorism to achieve his aims...
Hold editors’ meeting. Veil intragroup hostility under thin veneer of civility and shooting down each other’s ideas...
...Ever since the end of World War II, when Emperor Hirohito was stripped of his divinity, Japan's royals have used life's milestones to strengthen their bonds with a skeptical Japanese public. Beneath the veneer of respect and admiration for the royals, there is still residual resentment over the role of Hirohito in Japan's wartime aggression. "I don't like the royal family very much," says a 27-year-old journalist who turned down an assignment to cover the royal birth because of her distaste for the imperial system. "It's nice to celebrate the birth, since they...
...George Hoynigen-Huene and Horst P. Horst, two of the most famous fashion photographers of the twentieth century, shows us what glamour really is. The Look presents us with a charming and uncomplicated view of history that glosses over the tumultuous events of the past century with a veneer of elegance and style. This exhibit does not even pretend to be political, and once you get over the fact that you are being presented with the frothy side of history, you will be in sheer heaven...