Word: skewness
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Money can can skew democracy. The ideal behind the one-man, one-vote credo--that every citizen should have an equal input--falls in the face of interests which are able to manipulate candidates through large make-or-break contributions...
...framework for choosing elites, yet he does not account for the possibility that such a framework would systematically and unfairly perpetuate such at, elite. He tells us that admissions officers cannot avoid questions of just desert in drawing up policies, but points us in directions that would further skew society's distribution of fruits and rewards...
...fair, the notoriety gained by the course--which will be taught in the Law School's winter term by Jack Greenberg and Julius Levonne Chambers, both of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund--is bound to skew the enrollment figures somewhat. A good number of students who probably knew little about either of the two visiting professors have been treated to a barrage of press accounts lauding the men's special qualifications for teaching the course...
...Pogrebin inside a cocoon of ideology. How else could a writer suggest, never mind believe, that children might be encouraged to forsake the music of the Rolling Stones (sexist, of course) for the uplifting ballads of Gay Feminist Holly Near. Ideology infringes on reality; one suspects it can also skew the sense of rhythm. It may not interfere with a woman's getting a job, however. And it may be able to show her why she cannot get a better one, or get paid in full for the very one she is doing...
When an artist essays a big subject, he tends to overreach: Longobardi's images, inspired by the catastrophic recent earthquakes in Naples, are too wispy and facile to convey more than a veiled pathos, except for one large painting of a skew-eyed lion interrupted in his mauling of a woman by a fountain toppling behind him. Altogether too much of the exhibition is pulpy with triviality. Ontani, who dresses in historical costume or mythological nudity and has himself photographed (not only as Dante, but as Christopher Columbus, Don Giovanni and even Leda), is a natural clown...