Word: distracter
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...actually wearing blue jeans and munching on French fries in a coffee shop on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, "and I think, 'Whoa! I want to be that girl.'" Today, except for the occasional swear word, she's very low-key. She's doing nothing to distract us from her one truly remarkable, and too often ignored, aspect: her admirable versatility as an actress...
Each spring admissions officers amass boxes full of discarded watercolors and videotaped productions of the Music Man--and the occasional batch of brownies--all sent by students hoping such extras will increase their prospects. More often they distract readers from the real meat of the application. A Cornell applicant, Budding Author, directed readers to her "countless short stories and novellas." Though the admissions officers were impressed with the other parts of Budding Author's application, they didn't quite know what to make of her creative writing. "Well it's not quite soft porn," said a confused Walbridge. Instead...
...Each spring admissions officers amass boxes full of discarded watercolors and videotaped productions of the Music Man - and the occasional batch of brownies - all sent by students hoping such extras will increase their prospects. More often they distract readers from the real meat of the application. One Cornell applicant, Budding Author, directed readers to her "countless short stories and novellas." Though the admissions officers were impressed with the other parts of Budding Author's application, they didn't quite know what to make of her creative writing. "Well it's not quite soft porn," said a confused Walbridge. Instead...
...Holt), Indiana University professor Murray Sperber compares the American university of 2000 with Rome circa A.D. 100. To keep the populace happy, corrupt Emperors used bread and circuses. In the modern university, administrators use beer and circuses--or Division I athletics and the binge drinking that accompanies it--to distract students from their crowded lecture classes and inattentive professors. Sperber argues that the ncaa, the advertisers who profit from college sports and the Animal House undergrads are all complicit in the deteriorating quality of higher education...
This week, the commission formally rejected Nader's pleas for inclusion, saying that the candidate's presence would distract the national audience...