Word: veneering
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...where does all the undeniable sexual beastliness go? Under the veneer of lifelong tedium, signs are apparent. Naughtiness pops up with cheeky regularity in such a sorry life. Comedians prosper in Britain merely by being able to deliver in plummy accents words like "moist" or "orifice." Usually they reduce audiences to hysterical convulsions, especially if the joke is surmounted with a veiled reference to flatulence. One particular guru of such humour, Frankie Howard, built a lifetime's personal luxury on his catchphrase "Titter ye not"; favourite stunts of his included the "naked buttock scene," to be outdone by one alternative...
Clearly, Epps fancies himself a man of action.He may project a veneer of conservatism and oldHarvard stuffiness but as a registered Democratand a veteran of the civil rights movement, hemasks an activist past...
Clearly, Epps fancies himself a man of action.He may project a veneer of conservatism and oldHarvard stuffiness but as a registered Democratand a veteran of the civil rights movement, hemasks an activist past...
...little secret of the recording industry is that hip-hop music is a source of enormous profits. For all the claims that revolutionary rap speaks for oppressed inner-city youth, its main consumers are affluent white suburban teenagers seeking to cloak their adolescent rebellion in a veneer of ghetto toughness. Some formerly impecunious ghetto youths have turned into millionaires by becoming rap artists. Not for nothing does Ice-T boast on his recent release Original Gangster that "William Morris is my agency. I'll never go broke, got property...
...wasn't that Canova imagined himself rivaling the Greeks; practically no one then imagined such a feat was possible. Works like the Apollo Belvedere, let alone the Parthenon marbles (which, abducted from Athens under a veneer of legal transaction by Lord Elgin, went on view in London in 1807), were beyond the reach of living talent; one could only marvel at what Canova, on first seeing the Elgin Marbles in 1815, called "the truth of nature conjoined to the choice of beautiful form -- everything here breathes life . . . with an exquisite artifice, without the slightest affectation or pomp...