Word: distractibility
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first subtly, then more and more openly. He fastens her dress in back and kisses her quickly to the nape, but when she turns expectantly to embrace him, he has turned away to get his coat. Then to a night club where the urgency of her voice fails to distract him from the vulgar gyrations of the dancer, and finally to the industrialist's home where a huge party is in progress. One sees them go their separate ways, Giovanni attempting to make it with Tina, Lidia refusing to take any part in the proceedings and eventually going off with...
...Krok adaptation of The Twist is constructed on a New Havenish ground (one can detect an "Arf" in the midst of the rock growls); but, though one suspects that the lyrics owe their inspiration to the recent carolings of the Lampoon Tabernacle Choir, the noise is usually sufficient to distract attention from them--and the noise is thumping good...
...Dakin, an amiable East St. Louis attorney and a convert to Roman Catholicism, drops broad hints in person and in print as to how Tennessee can achieve peace of soul. Says Tennessee amusedly: "If it would make him happy, I would have a deathbed conversion. It might help to distract...
...Might civil defense distract attention from efforts to work out means and institutions for controlling international tensions and keeping conflict within non-violent boundaries...
They gave me the torture called 'del ahogadito' -- the little drowning. They make you strip off every stitch of clothing down to your undershorts, then they distract your attention and when you are least expecting it, you get a punch in the stomach or the liver and before you catch your breath, they grab you by the hair and push you head first into a barrel of water . . . There were other tortures, like 'the little monkey.' In this one they strip the prisoner and put him up on a pole that goes across the room under the ceiling, making...