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...Soviets. Both nations have networks of sonar buoys guyed to sea floors and connected by cable to onshore listening stations. Both meticulously map the crucial topography of the ocean bottom. Both continually analyze the thermoclines, or pockets of differing underwater temperature, that deflect and distort sound waves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Echoes in The Depths | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

...absurdist works of Ionesco and Beckett. What Czechoslovaks will discover is a painstaking attention to the elaborate web of falsification that for so long enabled a despised leadership to maintain its grip. Havel's work depicts the idiocy of entrenched bureaucracies and the power of language to twist and distort ideas. It also highlights the unwitting complicity of ordinary citizens in the maintenance of totalitarian regimes. "Everyone is in fact involved and enslaved," Havel once told TIME. "Each person is capable, to a greater or lesser degree, of coming to terms with living within the lie." Almost alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East-West: The Conscience of Prague | 12/11/1989 | See Source »

After ignoring certain "technicalities" in the photo and placing words into Dershowitz's mouth, Larew then proceeds to completely distort the reference to Dr. King, in my recent letter to The Crimson. In the context of arguing against equating Zionism with racism, I wrote, "Let us not forget the wisdom of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., an ardent supporter of the State of Israel, who warned that anti-Zionism often acts as a shield for anti-Semitism." This is crucially different from Larew's "paraphrase" that "criticism of Israel is sometimes a disguise for anti-Semitism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Defense of Israel Is No Vice | 12/2/1989 | See Source »

Wise says he had many problems designing lenses that would not distort the chickens' vision or irritate their eyes. He keeps a jar in his office filled with hundreds of pairs of failed test lenses that looks like a container of jelly beans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Entrepreneur Wants a Lens in Every Chicken | 11/27/1989 | See Source »

Universities, politicians and the media continue to distort images of Asian-Americans by portraying them as outsiders and "model minorities," a noted Berkeley ethnic studies professor said at a Harvard Foundation forum last night...

Author: By Juliet E. Headrick, | Title: Asian-Americans Still Stereotyped | 11/14/1989 | See Source »

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