Word: detract
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...senior Becca Lowenhaupt's series of skyscraper lobbies. Included in each photo is a bouquet of flowers or a potted plant, always looking completely out of place. In one photograph of an elevator bank, a flower arrangement seems frozen by its stark corporate surroundings. These sterile contexts do not detract from the beauty of the flowers but instead contrast that beauty, making it suddenly strange. Each lobby also features an office functionary, frozen in the photographic frame, standing in stark Hopper-like profile. Baring her camera in the sterility of corporate urbanity, Lowenhaupt has thoughtfully commented on the possibility...
...would detract from what the coalition is trying to do," said John Paul Rollert '00. "With this amendment, the U.C. comes first and the coalition comes later...
...other hand, hardly found the voice of Chekhov. Amply filling out his suit, perched on a barstool, Jones sat stumbling over Russian place names, Of course, the reading was rehearsed only once, but surely Jones could have learned his pronunciation. His physical and iconic presence did not actually detract from his performance, and in fact his Texas accent suited the gruff, serious and asexual Chekhov as much as it distracted. His delivery, on the other hand, was just flat. One had the feeling that Jones is an actor for active, visual roles and that sitting on a barstool reading Chekhov...
Still, teachers say they worry that the time required to administer the test will detract from time devoted to school curriculum, as well as focusing the curriculum on the MCAS material...
...Charles--an hysteria that rocks the Charles riverfront each October. But just six corporate sponsors--enough to have booked Wyclef for this years event--handing out free samples or distributing information from five by five-foot booths strategically placed on the perimeter of the MAC Quad would hardly detract from Springfest's grandeur...