Word: distractability
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...statements led some council members to worry that she would distract attention from providing student services...
...Foer spares no expense with his typographical special effects?italics, capital letters, parentheses within parentheses, onomatopoeia, song lyrics and encyclopedia entries?and the book comes laden with bloated blurbs ("He will win your admiration, and he will break your heart," croons Joyce Carol Oates), but don't let that distract you. Under it all there's a funny, moving, unsteady, deeply felt novel about the dangers of confronting the past and the redemption that comes with laughing at it, even when that seems all but impossible. As Perchov would say, it's the right thing...
...Foer spares no expense with his typographical special effects--italics, CAPITAL LETTERS, parentheses within parentheses, onomatopoeia, song lyrics and encyclopedia entries--and the book comes laden with bloated blurbs ("He will win your admiration, and he will break your heart," croons Joyce Carol Oates), but don't let that distract you. Under it all there's a funny, moving, unsteady, deeply felt novel about the dangers of confronting the past and the redemption that comes with laughing at it, even when that seems all but impossible. As Perchov would say, it's the right thing...
...block structures. As Bochner stated, this series is principally about the process rather than the object. Attempting to undermine the accepted minimalist notion championing the “object nature” of art, these objects actually seek to be as visually uninteresting as possible in order not to distract from their purpose as models of a thought process...
Cambridge already has another petition on voting eligibility currently pending with the state legislature, which would allow immigrants to vote in school committee elections. Several councillors had previously expressed concern that a petition to lower the voting age would distract from the immigrant voting petition, but Monday night councillors said a second petition would reinforce the importance of voting rights issues in Cambridge...