Word: distract
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...promising plot, but the cast--largely through poor enunciation--fails to draw out the ironies, and poor music and choreography in the chorus scenes distract the audience from the better scenes between the main characters...
...crazy theorist once suggested that video games are a Communist plot to distract our young people from their studies so that the United States would lose its competitive edge...
...Malamud wrote of Eli Fogel, a middle-aged author suddenly saddled with a young acolyte named Gary Simson. Fogel enjoys the veneration, up to a point; his work has garnered moderate recognition and less money. But Simson's relentless requests for advice, tips on writing and letters of recommendation distract Fogel from his own efforts, in this case his slow progress in finishing another novel: "Perfection comes hard to an imperfectionist. He had visions of himself dying before the book was completed. It was a terrible thought: Fogel seated at the table, staring at his manuscript, pen in hand...
Parker's ploy is to distract year counters and prop watchers with a nifty plot and vintage dialogue. His solution to the marriage dilemma is resolved in a thoroughly modern manner that requires neither a long goodbye nor a farewell, my lovely...
...Chinese warlord who ruled the region in hopes of grabbing the territory outright. But the Japanese government squashed any further moves and hushed up the army's involvement in the killing. In 1931, Tokyo again tried to stop the army. But renegade officers arranged for a geisha to distract and delay the envoy sent by the central government. Overtaken by events and well aware that the Manchurian offensive had won acclaim for the militarist factions in Tokyo, the Japanese government caved in to the army's visions of manifest destiny -- and to its foolhardy insistence on heeding the lessons...