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Word: distractedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Horch and Marston give lackluster performances overall. Horch is often awkward and distracted on stage. It is almost as if Horch is thinking of next week's midterms.

Author: By Melanie R. Williams, | Title: Harvard Theater | 11/4/1988 | See Source »

Marston seems especially distracted, and she has a hard time staying in character. During the performance I saw, when technical problems caused the sound effects to stop working during the show, Marston led the cast in a total loss of character and presence. In a vain attempt at comedy, Marston...

Author: By Melanie R. Williams, | Title: Harvard Theater | 11/4/1988 | See Source »

Maurice Hoo, one of two members of theCoalition for Diversity who were given reservedseats on the student dean search committee, saidthat the committee had been "distracted" by allthe controversy surrounding its membership.

Author: By Tara A. Nayak, | Title: HLS Referendum Postponed | 11/4/1988 | See Source »

Allegory, in his early work, went with the desire to see freshly -- and it would return in strange forms in his old age, like the 1896-98 painting of a fallen jockey whose horse may distantly refer to one of the steeds of the Apocalypse, or the Russian Dancers of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Seeing Degas As Never Before | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

She demonstrates this quality from the moment she fetches the old family Dodge from the body shop and immediately has a fender bender with a delivery truck. She had been distracted by the coming activities of the day: first, to drive with Ira 90 miles to Deer Lick, Pa., to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Praise of Lives Without Life-Styles BREATHING LESSONS | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

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