Word: distortive
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...straight talk" to the U.N. General Assembly the previous week (TIME, Sept. 30), Ford deplored "the pulverizing impact of energy price increases on every aspect of the world economy." He warned: "Sovereign nations cannot allow their policies to be dictated or their fate decided by artificial rigging and distortion of world commodity markets ... Exorbitant prices can only distort the world economy, run the risk of worldwide depression, and threaten the breakdown of world order and safety...
...newsmen cooperated in carrying it out doubtless helped authorities to maintain a degree of order in a potentially calamitous situation. But there is a danger in self-censorship. In its desire to avoid provocative excesses, the Boston press came perilously close to a kind of news management that can distort coverage just as surely as sensationalism. To dictate the tone of reportage even before the event occurs can create a group-think approach that is unhealthy for newsmen and unhelpful to their audience...
...doth distort the military situation...
...objects in view. Because it can transfix a scene with minute detail, people expect photography to reflect the world for future reference in a rational way, of course. Film doesn't have texture like oil paint, dimension like sculpture. One can't avoid or escape reality on film, only distort it, so still pictures make dubious art by some people. Maybe this book will change their minds. It lets one see some beauty in a frame house where the wood slats are like ribs against skin. It lets one share a view that urges more than the registration...
...found that stimulating the cerebellum electrically apparently increases its inhibitory action on the cerebrum. Cooper has implanted electronic "pacemakers" upon the cerebellums of several epileptics, as well as patients suffering from stroke-caused paralysis, cerebral palsy and from dystonia, a neuromuscular defect in which permanently flexed muscles twist and distort the limbs. The device, which stimulates the cerebellum with low-voltage jolts, has produced relief in most of the 70 cases in which it has been used. One muscular 26-year-old man suffered from daily epileptic seizures before he came to Cooper for a pacemaker. Since the machine...