Word: distortive
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...TASS, Izvestiya and the other Soviet outlets undoubtedly would fill and color their summit coverage with the overheard irreverences of American correspondents chortling over Reagan's malapropisms, Nancy's dresses and Secretary of State George Shultz's tennis. That's the lingo of freedom that Soviet eavesdroppers love to distort. The U.S. team, wise in the ways of media, suggested the Soviets give them similar privileges. The issue is on hold while the Soviets go back to the manual...
...since the mid-1970s. Individuals must pass through a metal detector, and carry-on luggage is examined, usually by an X-ray machine. These devices can occasionally be fooled: lead-lined bags sold to protect film can shield weapons from detection, and metal foil can sometimes be used to distort the shape of an image. It is up to the operator of the X-ray machine to insist on opening a bag for closer inspection when a blank mass or an unusual image appears on the screen. Checked luggage is not routinely examined or X-rayed. When there is cause...
...America. CBS decided against live broadcasts, relying instead on taped segments (and spending only about $450,000). Howard Stringer, executive vice president of CBS News, said that his network believed live coverage in a restricted society like Viet Nam's promised to produce little news and, in fact, might distort what was seen. "The purpose of live TV is to show some excitement, but there's not much spontaneity in a controlled environment," said Stringer. "You begin to wonder if the whole thing is public relations and not news...
...resistance to Nazism," and says that "their terror centered on the Communists and militant social democrats who were the hard core of the resistance." What makes this even more frightening is that this is part of a larger trend of faulty revisionist history that threatens to erase or distort the memory of the Holocaust...
...lute, like a pale lunar egg, hanging on the brown sand as the moon hangs in the blue night. Reproduced a millionfold, this oneiric image became the Guernica of the tots, the standard decor of upper-middle-class childhood. Such fame, decanted on a single picture, can distort an artist's entire reputation...