Word: distortive
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Such factors, Aronson said, will distort the judgment of probability in one direction or another. With Mantle at bat in the bottom of the nineth, two outs, men on base, and the Yankees behind, the sports fan might rate the chances for a home run as high as 50-50. Ordinarily, however, the chances are only...
...basically irresponsible," Roger M. Leed '61 told Howard J. Phillips '62. "You have completely distorted everything I have said," Phillips complained. "You always twist and distort, Howie," moderator Jerry Williams observed...
...culture boom itself. "Feeling the old attachment to high Art," Barzun sees in the "very abundance and availability of the democratized arts the causes of a prompt dissolution...The powerful devices of mechanical reproduction and high pressure distribution to which we owe the cultural 'awakening' necessarily distort and thus destroy. All the new media make arbitrary demands on the materials fed through them. And because the public to be served is large and failure costly, it is important that the product suit-hence the endless cutting and adapting, reworking and diluting, which end in travesty. The films...
...saving devices in the kitchen, he said, has turned the U.S. from a "food culture to a dishwasher culture." As for clothes, "we are victims of the brassière erotic." said Rudofsky. "We have lost a religious respect for the dignity of the human body. We squeeze and distort the body, and our clothes are only shaping it." Man is no better prepared to solve the problems of shelter, said Rudofsky. "About a generation ago, great exertions were made to lift architecture above the level of pastiche." Yet, with "fashionable change slowly getting the better of invention, a kind...
...first sculptures were busts and birds of carved metal, but he soon found figurative art too restricting. "If you have a figure with two hands," says he, "and you find that the spatial relationships cry out for a third, you will distort too much. With free form there is no such confinement." Having worked with metal from his youth, De Rivera not only felt at home with the material, but also found that it gave him more freedom than any other. "I don't use wood because it has a grain, and the grain can be too strong. Stainless...