Word: skew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Russian called Booker T. Dostoevsky and a rampaging Arab called Abdul the Disgusting. The ridiculous new version, The Last Remake of Beau Geste, stars Michael York in the title role, Marty Feldman as his twin brother Digby and Ann-Margret as the pair's libidinous stepmother. For the skew-eyed Feldman, who co-wrote the script, The Last Remake offers his first chance to play director as well. How is the actor-writer-director holding up? "I wear three hats," says Feldman, "but I have only two heads...
...money drive will skew a school's giving position way out of line," Peebles said. "A large bequest or gift in a single year will make you look great for that year but lousy the next...
Farber said last night. "I don't want to skew the decision-making process in any way," and spoke of his desire not to prejudice the Corporation before the Pan-African Liberation Committee has a chance to present its case on April...
...these arguments are forcefully advanced by Howard R. Penniman, professor of government at Georgetown University, in a paper published by the American Enterprise Institute. In the same publication, Ralph K. Winter Jr., professor of law at Yale, argues that Government regulation of a campaigner's fund will "skew the political process in unforeseen and undesirable ways." Candidates opposed to the Establishment would suffer most. If campaign contributions were controlled by law, how could a McCarthy mount a challenge to a sitting President of his own party? To get the candidate around the country, on the tube...
...strike, he named the hand of its origin. Nothing can remain unknown entirely, magical creatures are composites of the world we know, and we turn men into pigs, always the unknown. Milton made it concrete and germinal and capitalized it with Heaven and Hell. Chaos is when things are skew at their origins, can never come together, cannot be parallel for sense or reason...