Word: distortive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Journalists generally hold that compressing a person's remarks or improving his grammar is acceptable if it does not distort meaning. But Editor William Thomas of the Los Angeles Times said that he would dismiss a reporter for behavior like Reid's: "It is an indulgence we cannot afford in this business." Leonard Downie, who was named last week as managing editor of the Washington Post, said, "Shawn is apparently torn between personal loyalty to Reid and the standards for accuracy of his magazine." Declared Des Moines Register President Michael Gartner: "Anybody can be a good writer...
...report criticizes the tendency to sacrifice communities courses to fulfill admissions requirements." "Educators have long observed that pre-medical requirements and prevailing admissions others push college students into majoring in science and stir anxieties that distort the course election and ever, the extracurricular activities of many undergraduates," Bok continues...
...Policy." Although I have many concerns regarding the misrepresentation of the events of the meeting. I will confine my remarks to the quote attributed to me by Ms. Engelmayer. To the best of my recollection, the actual words are correct, but the context in which she places them completely distort my viewpoint. She writes that...
...exhilarating as this performance is, it does not dominate or distort Miller's vision. In fact, it frees it from the limits imposed by critics of the original production, who tended to see Willy's fate determined almost solely by capitalist economics, and by later commentators who wondered whether the salesman could be regarded as a truly tragic figure, since he was not observed to fall from the great heights demanded of such characters by the laws of Aristotelian aesthetics. From the beginning, Miller told TIME Reporter Elaine Dutka, he had seen the play as two seemingly different...
...late Egyptian President, but when the TV film Sadat was screened recently for a censorship committee that included Egyptian Minister of Culture Muhammed Radwan, something had obviously been lost in the translation. Charging that the 1983 film, which stars Louis Gossett Jr., 47, contained "historical errors that distort the accomplishments of the Egyptian people," Radwan banned from his country not only Sadat but all films produced or distributed by Columbia Pictures. Egyptian objections to the four-hour movie are not so much that Anwar Sadat is played by a black actor, as some reports have suggested, but that accents...