Word: distractedness
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Keeping track of the changes that are transforming the American economy isn't easy. John's colleagues sometimes wonder how he manages to do it without generating mountains of paper. His plan for this week's cover story was outlined in a dozen or so brief phrases on a single...
If you are a reasonable person, you would probably be disconcerted by the camera crew's presence. You might become more nervous than you had already been. Conceivably, you might become distracted and confused during the exam, even if the material had been clear in your mind only hours earlier...
Director Barry Levinson, who has been known to place a sentimental scrim over the past, avoids the temptation here. He envisions old-time Hollywood as sleek, hard and distracted by its own overnight success. The whole town acts like an overhandsome star -- rather like Bugsy's friend George Raft (whom...
"Radio invaded the home and distracted the family with its chatter and its gabble. It only made sense as a service for the elderly, the sick, the crippled, the shut-ins, the feeble minded." But the audience grows. The disabled and the healthy alike sit at rapt attention as the...
Fuchida woke at 5 a.m. As he told American military historian Gordon Prange, he put on red underwear and a red shirt so that if he was wounded, his men would not be distracted by the sight of his blood. At breakfast, one of his lieutenants said, "Honolulu sleeps."