Word: distracter
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Muldoon finally realizes that Norma, his Fantasy-Eve, will always distract him yet admits at last to himself that other worlds "like the ones orbiting in the daily sports pages" attract him equally. Norma's final goodbye is couched in her old Viennese accent--sincerity proves harsh, good-humored cynicism masks realism once more: "Vell, zee Revolution calls, you know...
...more pernicious than this falsehood is the patronizing attitude underlying the bill. The disadvantaged in rural America are entitled to have doctors to cure their flu and deliver their babies but, the bill implies, they should have their own people serve them and not distract the rest of us from our more socially significant specialization and research...
...after another into the hell of politics. In fact, campaigning is more purgatory than hades, and families are more likely to be consumed by television coverage than hellfire. Still, the extensive use of the family as campaigners smacks of cynical exploitation, a show-business gimmick calculated to dazzle and distract. And what of the politician who (Nielsen forbid!) has a homely wife or less than bright children? The day seems not far off when he will be barred from running. Should families skulk back to the home or suppress their need (if it exists) to express themselves? That...
Such coziness between the cosmetics and film industries is a red flag. Lipstick is simply a bad commercial movie intended to sell Margaux Hemingway. Its excuse for existing is its very serious subject matter, which is packaged and disposed of rather neatly so as not to distract from Miss Hemingway's charms...
...fact that there is no poetic justice in the world of traveling violations and three-point plays shouldn't serve to distract from Harvard's efforts last Saturday. The fact that they outplayed their highly rated cross-town rivals but emerged with nothing concrete to show for it should not be soon forgotten, for the cagers proved that they have the talent to keep pace with, and defeat the majority of, their future opponents...