Word: distortive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cliches especially distort Donna and Marlene's friendship and literally reduces them to brawling in a bar. The mixture of sadness, anger and confusion on Donna's face as she tries to decide what to say and for whom to say it expresses the real emotions of what a racist society can do to those trapped within. No matter what she says, there will still be no answer to the problem. The responsibility for the issue belongs to nobody in particular, the film says, but everyone is a participant...
...friends in a rousing rendition of "God Bless America." The controversy over The Deer Hunter's racism, its blind patriotism, and its historical inaccuracies (some would say lies) exploded in angry editorials and boycotts of the film. Important questions were raised: Did the artist have a right to distort the terrible social and political realities of recent history for the sake of drama? Did the artist have a social responsibility to give a fair, unbiased picture of reality, examining all the film's issues? Would this social responsibility make a mockery of art? Thus, the Quandary...
...fiction or humor. "Fact" pieces increasingly run on longer, are more pedestrian in the telling, and are heavily weighted toward the scientific. Shawn acknowledges that some articles can be hard going. "We don't want them to be any more accessible than a piece is that does not distort the science that is being written about." (On that ground, why not staves of music in the music reviews? Shawn smiles: "If it did come up, I'm afraid we'd do it.") He recognizes that some pieces are "so special, so idiosyncratic" that few will read them...
...PBHA literature in past student registration packets was placed there without the consent of University officials. PBHA has been placing information in the envelopes for twenty years, and in every case permission had been granted. For administrators to suggest that we stuffed the envelopes behind their backs is to distort the facts...
...must be careful" in dealing with the South Korean government so that the South Koreans cannot distort the issue into one of American imperialism, he added...