Word: distortedly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thing to commend Stone on this film is the film-making itself. He is stretching the boundaries of where the techniques of film-making has been taken. He employs unusual lighting, off-kilter camera angles, animation and special computer effects which distort the stills. He uses clips from old films one after another in odd places: westerns outside hotel windows, horror flicks making up the horizon where they drive. In the hands of a more skillful story teller, Stone's visual talent could reinforce instead of detracting from the point being made. Unfortunately, though, Stone seems too arrogant to allow...
...focusing on issues, we're going to attack Ted Kennedy's record," Romney said. "We're not going to distort his record...
Indeed, as council members who should have been expelled continued to vote at meetings, certain vote could easily have been distorted. Furthermore, those council members who should have been expelled and continued to miss meetings served to distort house representation, as those council spots should have been awarded to other students by special election...
Although simplicity is important, the VAT's most significant benefits are its neutrality and fairness. Simply put, a VAT does not distort economic behavior. Economists generally agree that the best type of tax is one that does not change incentives, since incentives create deadweight losses and reduce consumer welfare more than necessary. Distortions result in inefficient allocations of resources, which slows growth and hurts everyone...
...What is intolerable is that frauds and poseurs, who rejected radical American culture to make shiny new gods out of boring French theorists, should now claim to be the heirs of Sixties though. Political correctness is the obscene clumsines of johnny come latelies who never understood and therefore criminally distort the Sixties...