Word: detracted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...occasional offensive lyric, however, doesn't detract from the fact that the music itself is pure untarnished country, with a sensuality that bluegrass music often lacks...
Jackson Browne's songs are bouncy, and if you listen to them closely, dull. But he is at least energetic and probably will not detract from what should be a first-Raitt concert...
...himself open to this kind of facile speculation. But for once let the context be forgot, not only because one could make a case for a peculiarly redemptive humility of tone in the novel, but just on general principles. References to Mesopotamian mythology and Joseph Conrad don't detract from the fact that this is a hell of a baseball book, and I'd rather hear a Brooklyn Dodger fan than a professor on this...
...good jokes, nice lyrics, lively and interesting score. But they intended Superman to be inept and endearing, so they wrote it in. What this Quincy House production does, no less endearingly, is extend the clumsiness to the whole presentation. Needless as this amateur touch is, it doesn't really detract from an evening that had little more than laugh potential anyway. Harvard audiences seem sympathetic to plays that have some rollicking enthusiasm, and no one minded much that the technical, orchestral, and choreographic aspects of this production were bad, bad, bad on opening night...
...both the functional demands of the urban framework and the lifestyle of tenants. In attacking this approach, Newman combines functional considerations with sociological analysis. However sound his design theories may be, he is no sociologist. A few undeveloped digressions into the "root causes" of social ills do more to detract from than to strengthen his theories of defensible space...