Word: veneering
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...fluorescent gloom pervades the courtroom for Criminal Business of the Third District Court of east Middlesex Country. The ceiling lights have the grayish-white color of dirty institutional bed linen, and colors are sapped, dulled in this civil service twilight. The chalkboard looks olive drab, the cheap wall veneer blends into the dusty browns of the portraits. Even the well-tanned private lawyers look wan and pasty...
...appearances. "People who deny Perot's popularity just don't get it," Okamoto explains. "This movement is about choice. People can't stand another four years of gridlock." Nearly 500 turned out for a Perot rally in Irvine -- middle-class, middle-aged people, who shared both a veneer of affluence and a hunger for political meaning in their lives. California Perot chairman Bob Hayden, who took the unpaid job just four weeks ago, told the crowd, "We're just like you; we're not activists...
...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...