Word: tarnish
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Sabi suggests patina or decomposition: the retreat of bright new substance into a world of obscurity and hints. It is what a cypress doorframe acquires after three centuries of sliding the shoji back and forth. It is what Japanese collectors got when they left their silverware to tarnish, instead of polishing it to a bright Tiffany glitter. Wabi is an older and wider concept. It conveys not the dryness and stillness of sabi, but an aristocratic use of "poor," rustic materials. Tea is the origin of much of Japanese design since the 15th century; in fact, the nearest thing...
...many consider these accomplishments a mixed blessing. Nobody accuses the University of any athletic impropriety, but many fear that immoderate success on the playing fields might tarnish the Harvard image. Sports, after all, play a major role in establishing a school's public image. Mention the University of North Carolina and Dean Smith is bound to enter the conversation. Notre Dame is a football team and Digger Phelps...
...Providence mayoralty in 1974 at the age of 33. By a mere 709 votes over a sorely split Democratic machine, Vincent A. Cianci Jr. became the first Republican mayor of the heavily industrial city in 34 years. But he soon had a problem that threatened to tarnish the good-guy image. A 1978 cover story in the now defunct New Times magazine reported that twelve years earlier, while a law student at Marquette University, Cianci had been accused by a 20-year-old Milwaukee telephone operator of having raped her at gunpoint in his apartment. Cianci sued the magazine...
Relating the kidnapping story and its subsequent cover-up in no way constitutes an attempt to tarnish the reporting done by the journalist involved after their nightmare. Nowhere does proof exist showing that Kifner, Randal, Farrell and the others were biased in their coverage of the Middle East. But Americans has the right know about the incidental the abducted journalist reported from Lebanon at one time or another this summer during the Israelli Invasion. No one can say whether their news stories--consciously orsub-consciously--reflected the danger they knew they were...
...posed logistical and security challenges that dwarfed even last summer's royal wedding. Security preparations for his public appearances were the most elaborate that Britain had ever mounted. The police were clearly anticipating publicity-seeking demonstrations, and perhaps even ugly scuffles designed to embarrass the Pope and tarnish the ecumenical gloss of the visit. Most Britons support the Pope's trip, but Special Branch police were watchful of a faction of anti-Pope fanatics, especially in Liverpool and Glasgow. "We are expecting trouble," said one security spokesman...