Word: distracter
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...stuck in a strict, conventional rural town. While his crude older brother tries to save the family's strawberry farm by turning it into a theme park, Abel sneaks away and reminisces about his frustrated relationship with a cute alty-girl who moved away. With no central gimmick to distract him, Ollmann fleshes out Abel and his world with thoughtful details like the way Abel's mother "used to laugh more when we were little but she wears her hair pulled tightly now and preserves everything in pickle jars." In the end Abel comes home to a rage-filled father...
Moreover, it would be a logistical nightmare to try to set up a new election system, new campaigning rules and secure new funding for these elections. Also the considerable effort representatives would have to put into “re-election” campaigning would distract from their actual work on the committees...
...play, The Dybbuk, is Sack’s version of the script by Julia Pascal. It is about five prisoners in a ghetto who perform a folk play to distract themselves from certain death. Sack says his rendition of the play will utilize “cutting edge ensemble staging techniques...
...even Pacino’s famous grumbling and rumbling is not enough to distract you from the movie’s drudgery...
...Harvard players must wear lead weights on their skates to slow themselves down and put rubber on their sticks to give themselves less control. A remote controlled device must create a loud beeping noise in their heads whenever they see a teammate open for a pass to distract them and impair their vision...