Word: deflect
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...creative juice. So Michael creates around himself a world that protects his creativity." And the world outside is intrigued: about that rhinestone glove, for instance, that he has taken to affecting of late. Whatever their significance may be to Michael, gloves neatly, wittily?and, one hopes, consciously?deflect seriousness and reflect two of Michael's most publicized obsessions. A glove, even one with 1,200 rhinestones, suits Astaire-style topper and tails; it is also standard issue for many Disney cartoon characters...
...American companies to work for progressive change in South Africa, Critics--many of whom have been in the movement to force universities to divest their South Africa stock--charge that the principles have not produced any real change in the condition of Blacks, and they have instead served to deflect attacks on the South African state...
...charitable contributions the companies want to make don't address [these] real issues," Smith adds. "I think they [the Sullivan principles] are used in a manipulative way by corporations like Citibank, IBM, and Mobil to deflect the real criticisms about the way their presence in South Africa helps support apartheid...
...just this response that Biographer Scott Elledge, an English professor at Cornell, tries to deflect. The life of Author E.B. White, 84, Elledge keeps insisting, has been harder than it looks, from birth onward: "Elwyn was not a weakling or a sickly child, but he was not robust . . . his hay fever was so severe that his father took him (with the rest of the family) to Maine for the month of August in the hope of escaping the pollen that made him miserable." After enduring these hard knocks, this youngest of six children of well-to-do parents went...
Throughout the conference, Bok stepped in several occasions to deflect a number of questions and make sure that all went well in Spence's hot public appearance as deancleot...