Word: distorted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Most cases are classified by doctors as idiopathic, meaning that the causes are unknown. But the symptoms are all too familiar. Scoliosis is a progressive disease; without treatment, the curvature may become worse as a youngster grows older, disfiguring him with a hunched back. Eventually, the increasing curvature can distort the vital organs within the chest cavity and produce conditions that may cause death in young adulthood...
...have come from another sources: the Gallo Corporation itself. The E&J Gallo Winery the largest wine producer in the United States has mounted an enormous advertising capaign to counteract the boycott of Gallo products launched by its striking workers in 1973. The facts that Gallo presents, without substantiation, distort or ignore a number of important points that we feel should be made clear...
...makes for good photography also shows up in his failure to hang the best photographs by several of the "classic" photographers. Doty's treatment of Edward Steichen and Alfred Steiglitz, both closely associated with the "pictorialist" school, is good, but the pictures by Weston and Evans which he selected distort their work. Both men represent the birth of modern photography, but by trying to cast them as "hard focus pictorialists" he takes all the edge out of their radical innovations. Weston is represented with several abstractly formal pictures from the early 1930s (e.g., cross-sections of an onion...
...straight talk" to the U.N. General Assembly the previous week (TIME, Sept. 30), Ford deplored "the pulverizing impact of energy price increases on every aspect of the world economy." He warned: "Sovereign nations cannot allow their policies to be dictated or their fate decided by artificial rigging and distortion of world commodity markets ... Exorbitant prices can only distort the world economy, run the risk of worldwide depression, and threaten the breakdown of world order and safety...
...newsmen cooperated in carrying it out doubtless helped authorities to maintain a degree of order in a potentially calamitous situation. But there is a danger in self-censorship. In its desire to avoid provocative excesses, the Boston press came perilously close to a kind of news management that can distort coverage just as surely as sensationalism. To dictate the tone of reportage even before the event occurs can create a group-think approach that is unhealthy for newsmen and unhelpful to their audience...