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Word: distractability (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...America hasn’t known in decades, and it will be left up to the most talented artists amongst us to bring their struggle to film, books, poetry, painting, and anything else in a way that might finally bring change.Maybe we will finally have our own Steinbeck to distract us from the horrors of the market and the changes to our earth. Where are the Malcolm Xs, Janis Joplins, or Andy Warhols of today? Who will create the next “Guernica?” In the face of this social turmoil, where are the successors...

Author: By Andrew F. Nunnelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: McCain as President: Do Fewer Civil Liberties Mean Better Art? | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

...Cutting arts funding is a symbolic measure more than it is a practical one. As Frank Rich ’71 said in The New York Times, “Bashing the NEA, like boosting school prayer, is a high-profile, low-cost way for the Gingrich G.O.P. to distract the faithful while avoiding the hard choices about cutting multibillion-dollar entitlements that might really downsize the budget.” The NEA got cut off at the knees because it was easier—and much more popular—for House Speaker Newt Gingrich to blame Robert Mapplethorpe...

Author: By Jillian J. Goodman | Title: The State of the Art | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

...perfect number of people for a human pyramid. There were six of us, varied enough in height and weight to make tiers without breaking anyone’s back. We had a carpet to fall on and a slew of problem sets, papers, and readings to distract ourselves from. I was on the bottom tier, trembling and giggling alternately as each roommate added herself to the structure. After quite a bit of debate, shrieks, and near-arm-collapses, our pyramid existed for just a few moments. Then we dissolved into a jumble of limbs and exclamations that, I imagine, made...

Author: By Marina S. Magloire | Title: Reflections on a Human Pyramid | 10/29/2008 | See Source »

...Crimson looks to take them down. Midway through the matches, played on different times and in different places, the scores are both 1-0, in favor of Harvard. Then, my best friend, Dragon, who, ironically, is actually a dragon, storms through the field to distract the UNC and UVA teams...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: WALLY'S WORLD: Time to Unleash Crimson Dragon | 10/27/2008 | See Source »

...than the exoticism possible through rhetorical artistry. There are so many imported words, though, and he uses them so liberally that the effect is more exhausting than evocative. Passages like the following, from a British merchant fluent in the hodge-podge speech of Far Eastern port towns, confuse and distract rather than educate: “Now there was another chuckmuck sight for you! Rows of cursies for the sahibs and mems to sit on. Sittringies and tuckiers for the natives. The baboos puffing at their hubble-bubbles and the sahibs lighting their Sumatra buncuses. Cunchunees whirling and ticky...

Author: By Jillian J. Goodman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Waves Threaten, But Never Come to Crest in ‘Sea of Poppies’ | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

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