Word: distractability
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Walking more quickly in an effort to distract myself produced an almost dizzying effect. On each row, a title or two would snap into relief, barely able to be resolved by the dutiful memory before the next row was at hand. At irregular intervals, the heady stream of words would part to reveal curious eyes turned suddenly upward from the desk, beyond their appointed carrel, deep in thought...
What all this means is, simply by pointing out to your children that you understand that Phish owes a lot to the Grateful Dead, you can distract them briefly from your otherwise evident decrepitude. There are already institutions that have positioned themselves to benefit from that fact, adapting rock to the family-theme-park phenomenon. The Experience Music Project in Seattle, which opened last year, aims to be a place where parents can explain to their kids that James Brown is the old guy who sounds like Mystikal, and kids can tell their parents that Mystikal is the young...
...Along with players' familiarity with a park or field, home field advantage exists mainly because of fan participation. They make noise to either inspire the home team or distract the visitors. And they can do both without telling a professional athlete he sucks. Again, why do we tolerate in sports what we don't outside that realm? I wish I knew...
Labor Secretary-designate Linda Chavez withdrew her nomination Tuesday, saying she did not want any controversy to distract from President-elect George W. Bush's transition team. Chavez has faced increasing scrutiny for hosting an illegal Guatemalan immigrant 10 years ago - and paying her undisclosed sums of money for unspecified "chores" around the house...
...Vajpayee is playing a delicate political game. And that's taking India into another dangerous phase, where the [ruling Bharatiya Janata party] is revealing its hand, trying to exploit Hindu nationalist sentiments around the Ayodhya issue. Some observers believe that he may be doing this as something of a distraction for his supporters, trying to create political space for himself to push through tough economic measures, which he desperately needs to do. The government is basically bankrupt, and India is facing an economic slowdown. We're heading back into a terrible mess, but in a democracy as politically fractured...