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Word: distorts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...debate between Kenneth Clark and Carl Gershman demonstrated once more the manner in which the bourgeoisie and one of its state ideological apparatuses (i.e. the Press) seek to distort the objective nature of social processes and through its empty kind of polemics seek to make the natives fight among themselves. It is not only that they seek to obfuscate the nature of the Afro-American condition but, through a series of self-reflecting mirrors, they attempt to project themselves as the saviors of Black people, if only we can give them the solution to a problem which they created...

Author: By Selwyn R. Cudjoe, | Title: An Ideological Trick-Bag | 11/12/1980 | See Source »

Bush, who ran through the public hall where more than 1500 reporters had camped out, said that Reagan did not let Carter distort his record in California, adding that the president "could say nothing to defend his failed record on the economy...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Carter, Reagan Square Off in Debate | 10/29/1980 | See Source »

...sound quality of portables is nothing to get excited about. Many of them distort seriously, particularly when the volume control is advanced. There is less distortion with headphone listening since less sound power is required...

Author: By Martin Clifford, | Title: IN BOTH EARS | 10/16/1980 | See Source »

...They go to Africa holding very simplistic views, impatient that progress has not been made along Western lines, and then they distort the news in order to grab the attention of readers back home," Garba says...

Author: By Linda S. Drucker, | Title: Journalism in Africa: Chronicling Turmoil......And Defining the 'Opposition Press' | 10/15/1980 | See Source »

...sympathize with members of his audience who clamor for more comedy. With the same twisted reasoning, he thrives on the perks that accompany his celebrity but wants adulation only from a distance. His fame chokes him; he depicts his claustrophobia with several wide-angled tracking shots that subtly distort the faces of his fans until all seem ugly and deformed. "Just write," says an autograph seeker, "'To Phyllis Bernstein, you unfaithful lying bitch...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Lost in Place | 10/11/1980 | See Source »

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