Word: distracter
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...failing wanders into a backdrop (he has also somehow lost his sense of direction) and, fearing the loss of his job, shoots himself. Apparently neither he nor anyone else in the show has ever heard of eyeglasses. The capable cast, led by an energized Ben Vereen, tries to distract the audience from the story's cheap tricks and absurdities. The frenzy only underscores the falseness...
Some might feel that lyrical depth would distract from music this meticulous; M.I.A. finds the best of both worlds, filling the album with equal shares of nursery-rhyme scat, foreign slang, and an aggressive social conscience to back up her rhetoric of revolution...
...most positive outcome of the past few weeks may be the Faculty’s increased willingness to speak out on issues that have long troubled many of them. But its flipside is the dangerous likelihood that this crisis of governance will distract from the underlying issues—unintentionally aiding University President Lawrence H. Summers’ attempts to bring Washington politics to an institution that needs anything...
...only those pesky professors would keep their mouths shut. It’s not like the Faculty of Harvard could possibly know what they’re talking about, right? They’re asking insignificant questions that distract us from more important matters, aren’t they...
...robbery that officials blamed on the I.R.A., and that helped to kill the latest round of peace talks. $95,000 of that stolen cash has turned up - inside a police sports club in Belfast. Red-faced police there said the cash had been planted by the I.R.A. to distract from the damaging raids in the Irish Republic. Sinn Fein denies criminal ties. But a party member...