Word: distorting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...press conference last week, Presiding Judge Frederick Lawton defended the TV inquiry as an important forum for resolving questions surrounding Waldheim's past. "Unless properly investigated," he noted, "these allegations could distort the historical record." Former Nuremberg Prosecutor Telford Taylor, a consultant for the program, also supports the trial. "I see no reason to apologize for the fact that it is taking place on television," he says. "It's better to get a reasoned debate with jurists about the accumulated evidence than what we've been getting...
...Short View of the Stage came out in 1698. Today, the play is recognized as being, in the words of one critic, "Congreve's masterpiece, the finest English achievement in the comedy of manners." Whatever the merits of the production being reviewed, the writer of this review should not distort facts to suit glibness. But then again...
...order to find members of the printed mediaguilty, the court must have proof "that furtherpublicity, unchecked, would so distort the viewsof potential jurors...that 12 unbiased jurorscould not be found," Abrams quoted Burger assaying...
TAMPOPO An Eastern western: the cowboy is a truck driver, his homestead is a Japanese noodle restaurant. Writer-Director Juzo Itami offers a free-range meditation on how gourmet fads deliriously distort man's second favorite drive...
...unfortuante that Ms. Mullin willfully chose to distort the facts in order to add the spice of a possible controversy to her article. Susan M. Hanley