Word: distractability
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...criticism to be made of this book, it is that Saunders is growing too comfortable with his own mechanisms of prodding us to rediscovery. Overuse of certain kinds of speech errors and metaphors referring to popular culture can begin to make his characters feel too similar, and distract our attention from moments of real pathos in their stories...
...prominent Rome lawyer who has represented the family of Bernardo Provenzano, the boss of bosses of Sicily?s Cosa Nostra, told an Italian newspaper that he believed the Mafia chief had died several years ago. Other Mob leaders, attorney Salvatore Traina claimed, were using Provenzano?s "ghost" to distract authorities and cover their own tracks. That storyline, like dozens of others that have circulated for decades around Italy?s Most Wanted mob boss, appears to have evaporated on Tuesday with word that the 73-year-old boss was arrested on the outskirts of his hometown of Corleone...
...degree of unwillingness to identify racism, when it occurs, for what it is. Juan José Paradinas, who writes about soccer for daily newspaper El País, says insults at soccer games - even when targeted at a player's race - are merely examples of aggressive gamesmanship, intended to distract opponents. "It's like calling someone fat or ugly, a dwarf or an idiot," he says. "People use whatever physical characteristic they can to provoke someone." Carles Viñas, author of The World of the Ultras: Spanish Football's Rad-icals, disagrees. "There's a lot of hypocrisy...
...deadlock. The U.S. and Iran have shown a faint willingness to lower the temperature, by agreeing to hold talks over Iranian interference in Iraq. But it's unclear whether Tehran hopes to use the talks over Iraq as a way to open the subject of nukes--or to distract the West's attention from it. Ali Larijani, Iran's top nuclear negotiator, told TIME that the regime may be open to compromise on the nuclear issue. "If there is a proposal that the rights of Iran can be secured to some extent for the present time and the other rights...
...Life Posters Spark Debate,” news, Mar. 6 The irrational trashing of “Elena posters” by students demonstrates once again the wisdom of Harvard Right to Life’s developing-baby poster campaigns. Those who favor legalized abortion often try to distract the abortion debate by agnostically temporizing about the status of the fetus and instead focusing solely on the social and economic situation of the mother. With this distraction in place, most people can tune out the abortion debate most of the time. This supposedly agnostic position is dishonest?...