Word: distorts
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...exaggeration presupposes some discoverable, objective reality; the task of the human eye and scientific intelligence, in this classic view, would be to describe that reality as dispassionately and accurately as possible. The world has its being outside the fanciful brain of the exaggerator, a romantic whose business is to distort reality. Still, in the late 20th century, where reality is not stable, where it is instead erratic, skittish, apocalyptic, discontinuous, monstrously surprising (the Holocaust, for example, was an event far beyond the vocabularies of exaggeration), then it is hard to know what is an overstatement and what...
...unique aspect of Fazio's project is that the telescope's mirror will be cooled to a few degrees above absolute zero in order to ensure that the mirror does not give off infrared light of its own and distort the telescope's reception...
Laurence H. Tribe '62, professor of Law, last week urged a Senate sub-committee to reject a proposed constitutional amendment to restrict abortion, saying that the measure "would distort the constitutional framework...
...fight film," he sighs. He therefore found it a relief to make up Farrah Fawcett for a recent television movie. "I enjoyed it," he says. "After Raging Bull it was relaxation. But refining is also very difficult. It is easy to be ugly because it is so easy to distort...
...Washington see themselves and we cannot argue with their motivation. The United States is in deep trouble. But the ideas that have emerged from our transformed capital--from the seductive illusion of the Laffer curve to the cruel inhumanity of the Human Life Amendment --seem destined only to distort and corrupt what is left of our national dream...