Word: distortion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Women's studies departments, Paglia has written, tend to distort history in order to exaggerate the historical oppression of women...
...anti-colonial The Blacks in Paris was mostly made up of African immigrants. These cosmopolitan hyphenated Frenchmen, according to White, had some trouble working up the demonic rage he gave his characters. In handling incidents like these, thick with politics and personalities, White manages to deal with both and distort neither. He never loses track of Genet's peculiar psychology or the very real history around him. He's able to draw out the complexitites of his subject without glorifying him or moralizing about his shortcomings...
...such as Portrait of a German Officer, that moving, coded valentine of homosexual love, but omit his later, grandly somber images of the Maine coast. Have Georgia O'Keeffe's skyscrapers, not her flowers. And, amazingly enough, leave out John Marin altogether, however much this may distort the actual story of American art between the world wars...
Baseball should follow the lead of the NBA and begin a strong marketing campaign, rather than changing the structure of the sport. Some simple rule changes to help speed up the pace of the game wouldn't hurt, and won't distort the game the way the new proposal surely will...
...initial shock, the death of basketball star Reggie Lewis last week seemed a grim parable of the seductive power of professional sports -- of an athlete so devoted to a game and its rewards that he would distort medical truth in order to keep playing. It also seemed an object lesson in the relativity of medical truth, and in the perplexities -- perhaps even the questionable ethics -- of equally eminent specialists making highly public, completely contradictory diagnoses. The details that emerged in the days after Lewis died, however, suggested a medical and emotional situation that was both more complicated and more subtle...