Word: disproportionate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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But the ultimate loss to art's hyperinflation may be wider and less tangible than this. Quite rightly, MOMA's Varnedoe rejects the idea that "there was some mythical period, now lost, when art was seen only as the shining purity of aesthetic experience. As long as there has been...
The disproportion seems to be based on economic as well as ethnic factors. Air crashes, which entail millions of dollars in losses and mainly affect the affluent middle class, especially outside the U.S., command far more coverage than less glamorous causes of violent death. On the same day that the...
June Reinisch, a clinical psychologist at Indiana University's Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, also finds Hite's statistics to be of limited value. The sample is highly self-selected, she says (indeed, only 4.5% of the 100,000 questionnaires mailed were returned), and probably reflects...
THE MAJORITY VIEW overstates the Khadafy problem and misses the point. The point is disproportion: what Khadafy's bombthrowers did is minor, should be treated as minor, and probably would be treated as minor if it were not for a media fixated on terrorism. Twenty or 30 Americans are killed...
Second, Harry objects to the "homogencity" of the staff. "Or eleven editors," he complains, "nine are men...and four live in Adams House." In fact, we have tried persistently to be the least homogenous undergraduate publication at Harvard. Our editorial board, we have announced repeatedly, is open to any undergraduate...