Word: distractingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There once was a woman with unsightly feet. People whispered about her as she passed: "Look at that gal with those big, ugly feet." To distract attention from her unfortunate condition, the woman dyed her hair an eye-catching green. Thenceforth, she was gay, carefree. Everybody noticed her green hair. They whispered about her, as she passed: "Look at that gal with the green hair. And get a load of those feet...
...treachery. Such a reminder may be necessary when the Russian delegation starts filling the air with denunciations of Western activity in Algeria, Oman and Syria. In fact, the British Foreign Office last week described the flurry of Russian notes about the Middle East as simply an attempt "to distract attention" from the forthcoming meeting of the U.N. Assembly to consider the report on Hungary. The world would be a much simpler place if that was all there...
...biggest fault of the film comes from this everybody-has-a-story approach to all the characters. The life histories and present predicaments of each minor character intrude on the main action too much and tend to distract attention from the principals. You leave the theater confused by incidental episodes and uncertain about the director and script writer's purpose. If their purpose was to make a movie exactly life-like by packing it with interesting but irrelevant happenings, they have come dangerously close to succeding. Perhaps the greatest criticism of all cinematographic realists is that they are not selective...
...Adams, vice president of White Motor Co.: "Consider the nation's top executives. How many of them would have been hired if wives had been a factor in the selection? Some men need a psychiatrist at home who will listen to their problems. Others need frivolous wives to distract them. Some need wives who are prominent in civic activities, some not. You can't type a wife...
...council hopes to become a major clearing house of information for parents and teachers who are worried about present standards. Its monthly Bulletin (present circulation: 2,000) spotlights various school programs of high academic quality, reviews pertinent articles and books. In the current Bulletin, the council attacks various classroom distractions which, it claims, are justified by educationists "in the name of 'educating the whole child,' or of the Dewey-eyed notion that instead of preparing a child for society, a school should be a miniature, make-believe re flection of society." Among the questions it urges parents...