Word: distorted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...willing to practice self-restraint in the pursuit of national interests. We are prepared to apply this principle to all legitimate Soviet interests. The U.S.S.R. has traditionally had important security interests in Europe and East Asia. But the natural expansion of Soviet influence in the world must not distort itself into ambitions for exclusive or predominant positions. For such a course ignores the interests of others, including ourselves. It must and will be resisted...
...programs seem to be having little effect. After a $60,000 study, the Washington-based National Coordinating Council on Drug Abuse Education and Information revealed that the films are so eager to scare kids away from drugs that they undermine the credibility of their messages. Too often the films distort what is scientifically known about drugs and ignore the many uncertainties...
...historical film spectacle one teetering step past the previous low mark set by Anne of the Thousand Days. Whereas Anne at least tapped a romantic vein sure to keep Redbook and Seventeen reviewers cooing, Cromwell develops no gratifying love-or period-interest. Ken Hughes' bland direction and screenplay instead distort history to remove any possible ambiguities from Cromwell's public actions during the English Revolution: he is portrayed from the very beginning of the fray as the prime, the only principled, advocate of Parliament, "people," and "democracy." The movie eventually gets smothered in its own over-simplifications...
Michael Hamburger and Ruth and Matthew Mead, the translators of this collection, have set their versions on facing pages with the German originals. This is really the only appropriate way to publish a translation, since translations must, by their nature, somewhat distort the meaning of the original. Sachs' German is simple enough that a translator need not do it major damage, but it is still useful to watch exactly how the process of rendering it into English is going...
...truly discriminating disease: 99% of its U.S. victims are black. The result of a genetic mutation that occurred in Africa centuries ago, it reduces susceptibility to malaria in the 8% to 10% of U.S. Negroes who carry it. But in those (about 1%) actually harmed by it, periodic crises distort the normally spherical red blood cells into crescent-like ("sickle") structures, which then block the narrow capillaries. This deprives nearby tissues of needed oxygen and causes severe pain. The disease kills at least half its victims before the age of 20; only a handful live beyond 40, and most...