Word: detractions
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...flash back each year on Christmas to see how far they've come" manipulation of time). There are no dramatic peaks and valleys, no aesthetically pleasing beginning, middle and end. Gone, too, are the conventional techniques of characterization. Real people, with blood running through their veins, would detract from Pinter's concern with the purely intellectual. Jerry, Emma and Robert are as colorless as the gray business suits, black dresses and Burburry raincoats that fill their wardrobes. The stage is equally stark, lest a trinket or painting leak evidence of a character's personality--the stage is even more bare...
...place and running a few days of his Jan. 20 Inauguration if he wins the election. Chief of Staff Edwin Meese, who probably would get a top job in a Reagan Administration, has deliberately kept the formation of this shadow force low-key in order not to detract from the election effort...
Corporate ties are usually reserved for company directors, important clients and a few corporate friends. They are rarely sold to outsiders, since that might detract from their cachet. Most firms order only a limited number of the ties in silk because of the expense, about $10.50 each. More pedestrian polyester versions costing about $7.25 each are usually offered to middle-level employees at cost. And for their new women executives, many companies now have scarves that bear the corporate tie design...
...Governor's aides correctly assumed would backfire. Said Senior Adviser James Baker:, "They'll keep trying to hype this war issue unless someone calls them on it for factual accuracy and demagoguery." Reagan's aides also hope that the shrillness of Carter's statements will detract from one of his strongest attributes-his image of decency and fairness...
...traditional Rasta music. A guitar, a bongo, and smooth, taffy-flavored voices don't appear to be enough anymore. One introduction sounds remarkably similar to several measures on Elvis Costello's recent album. And a tuxedoed concert performer carries himself like Barry Manilow onstage. These isolated moments don't detract, however, from the music's mirthful, sensuous beauty...