Word: slanting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prime serious actor, and he has last year's Best Actor Oscar, for his role as the weary romantic suicidal alcoholic in Leaving Las Vegas, to prove it. "I never saw myself as a realist," he says. "I always saw myself as a stylist trying to give a different slant on reality...
...adds that working in a lab in college helps to make the transition to laboratory science with a slant on public health smoother...
...Kennedy School has shifted to the right in recent months--and the move seems to be effective. The New Members of Congress Conference is back--with a conservative tilt--after the temporary exile of many Republican members to The Heritage Foundation in 1994. Since shedding its liberal slant, the Kennedy School has finally emerged with a thankfully bipartisan point of view...
...essay by Krauthammer was certainly an eye-opener on the magnitude of media distortion in the U.S. How sad that we put our trust in a "free" press that routinely and overwhelmingly seeks to slant our perceptions, most particularly where Israel is concerned. Krauthammer is to be commended for his efforts to give us both sides of a situation, which is difficult enough without the arousal of undue sympathy toward a particular side by journalists (and their editors). PATRICE WELTMANN Buffalo Grove, Illinois Via E-mail...
...service-sector jobs have been taken from longtime black residents of the district by recent immigrants. He thinks the disparity can be alleviated if these old-line residents could get small-business loans. Rolle has a long history of civic involvement, but given the district's overwhelming Democratic slant, he will have his work cut out for himself in November...