Word: vencer
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...realize at once Vinnie Miner hides a jackpot full of eccentricity behind her vencer of conventionalism. She studies literature, but the literature of children's rhymes: she does not degrade herself with snide retorts to her academic detractors, but she imagines them torturously consumed by progressive pneumonia: she lives alone without visible regret, but she imagines a dirty dog Fido, or Self-Pity, as her constant companion. And now Vinnie, ahem, Professor Vinnie Miner, who wouldn't even lower herself to see the musical Oklahoma, finds herself making love to a hoky sanitation engineer from Fulsa...
...Democrats would do better to unleash all their venom on Reagan's henchmen, many of whom are grossly unqualified and do not share the President's vencer of personal unassailability. James G. Watt is the leading example: Caspar W. Weinberger '38 and Margaret Heckler are others And it's about time someone went to town on National Security Advisor William Clark, a foreign affairs novice who, according to Newsweek, "is commonly judged a 'disaster...
...heart of Bell's exposition, however, is a breathtakingly frank account of his personal struggle in redefine manhood. Indeed, at times the interviews with other men and allusions to psychological studies seem like a scientific vencer for what may be Bell's deeper purpose. You get the feeling that must of the book is no much rationalization for Bell's desire to analyze his own life...
Twentieth-Century Fox has unfortunately overlaid McKelway's remarkable story with a vencer of slick plot and slovenly acting. An incipient love theme stumbles awkwardly in and out of the hunt for 880; it involves Burt Lancaster as the Treasury man who catches 880, and Dorothy Maguire as a U.N. interpreter who had little to do with the original story at all. Lancaster handles a wide range of emotion by wrinkling his forehead (sincerity), rolling his eyes (bewilderment), and flashing a hair-trigger smile (most everything else); Miss Maguire is hyperthyroid. What saves the picture is the warm and careful...
...doing right. Another cataclysm followed hard upon. It seems that the tribal ways of thinking that the man of 1900 had blithely ignored had a resurgence in the twenties and thirties; any illusions hovering protectedly by were finally burned in the crematoriums or died with the Kamikaze pilots. The vencer of civilization had not just worn thin; it had warped and peeled off altogether...