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Forcing Carmen, the ultimate diva, to distract her attention from her sexual ploys and unrepentant selfishness is an intriguing, almost noble proposition—but one that ultimately proves futile...
...animated figure smiles coyly, bats her long eyelashes and swings her hips, using her feminine charms to distract the villain and allow the hero to save...
...read that skater Sasha Cohen finds it necessary to psyche out and distract her opponents by clipping them during warm-ups and using mental tactics to win. Cohen's lack of sportsmanship in her zest to be No. 1 leaves the viewer wondering whether it is cunning or ability that brings home the gold. MARJORIE A. CLAUSEN Santa Barbara, Calif...
...recall the all-too-familiar Beckettian void created by the obligation to speak and the ironic knowledge that one has nothing to say. I’ll have to footnote that. I never thought that 40–60 pages of text about English literature could so completely distract me from the real world. The Olympics went by (or are going by…I confess, I’m not sure if they’re done or not) in a blur; senior bacchanalia is nothing more than a few discarded e-mails and the faint notion that That...
...elliptical machine at the gym, completely absorbed by Giant Slalom ski racing on TV, I finally understood why Norwegian Ole Einar Bjoerndalen’s chance for a fourth gold medal in the biathlon mattered to me. As a friend hopped on the machine next to me, managing to distract me from the TV, I apologized for my unfriendliness and Olympic absorption. But then she popped a question that hadn’t ever occurred to me to ask myself...