Word: distract
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...trick, and for a while it's fun for us to share in his fun. But there comes a moment when his Euro-noir film turns into another sort of exercise for the audience: an exercise in boredom. We begin to see that Soderbergh is counting on style to distract us from the familiarity, not to say banality, of the narrative that Paul Attanasio has winnowed out of novelist Joseph Kanon's rather good thriller. What we have here are two standard noir characters. There's the hard-shelled antihero, Jake Geismer (George Clooney), returning to Berlin, where...
...which the beautiful traditional costumes, the distinctively cultural choreography, and the music (both traditional and modern Bhangra) were all well chosen. Unfortunately, the other effect employed—having someone offstage occasionally shout to accompany different segments of the dance—was less effective, serving more to distract viewers from the dance than to complement the dancers’ movements. This was followed by “Sway,” a charged Latin style dance self-choreographed by Filip Ilievski, a graduate student at MIT, and Jennifer M. Markham ’07 of Harvard Ballroom. Ilievski...
...family in common," Lech told TIME on the eve of his election. They recognize that their unusual relationship has the potential to raise eyebrows. Earlier this year, Lech skipped his brother's inaugural speech to Parliament, an occasion that Presidents have in the past attended, in order not to "distract" people, as Jaroslaw later explained. Soon after the speech, a reporter asked Lech whether it would become their policy that "where Prime Minister Kaczynski shows up, President Kaczynski does not?" "There might be exceptions to that rule," Lech replied. "Sometimes we are appearing together but it is true, it does...
Progress is sure to come to a halt as vindictive Democrats distract the nation from its real work and focus its attention on an inconsequential gaff—the Iraq war. But without luminaries such as Conrad Burns (R-Mont.), who will remind us of the “enemy that’s a taxi cab driver in the daytime, but a killer at night?” Meanwhile, the government will throw away billions of dollars on lowering student loan interest rates and providing healthcare to more Americans...
...points in the movie feature computer-generated modeling of Harold’s thoughts, but this technique, too, is used so rarely as to become superfluous. There’s so much cool but pointless visual trickery in this film that one begins to suspect Forster is attempting to distract you from the thin, weak narrative. The trick backfires, however, as the film never quite coheres, due in large part to its unjustified cinematic bells and whistles. The truly endearing quirks are the more organic ones, like Dustin Hoffman’s constant barefootedness, or Thompson’s enchantingly...