Word: distracter
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Everyone agrees that no matter how attractive the musician, if the performance is lacking, the career will not take off. Says Harnoy, the cellist whose bodice-baring Victorian dresses sometimes distract attention from her accomplished playing: "If this is getting albums sold, great. But I don't think if somebody buys my album because they like the picture, they will buy the next album because they like the picture. If the music is not pleasing them, there are only so many pictures they want to have...
...film's most redeeming quality: the cinematography. Director of photography Jonathan Cornick captures straight-laced Puritanism in idyllic shots awash with scullers, clapboard and steeples straight from an Eakins canvas. Dramatic cliffs and dense forests redolent of Bierstadt represent America's noble savagery. Happily, such arresting backdrops tend to distract the audience from the action...
...found outside almost daily, often for just a few minutes, lining up breaking putts-and working through some of the toughest issues he faces. "It's a think pad," George Stephanopoulos says of the green. "It's quiet, there are no phones, and he can use the game to distract part of his mind and let the other part do its work...
...balance of malice and merriment. At the age of 40, struggling novelist Richard Tull understands that he will never make it as a writer. His cerebral fiction no longer gets points for degree of difficulty. He reviews books for pittances, his wife earns more than he does, his children distract him, and he is impotent...
...meld science and faith. Too often over the centuries, Meier admits, the Catholic Church was taken in by charlatans. When reports spread of statues weeping or crosses bleeding or Jesus appearing on a tortilla, the church is often slow to respond, fearful that the search for a sign will distract from the hard work of faith. "There is a fascination with macabre aspects of religion," Meier explains, "but fascination is the enemy of true faith...