Word: distraction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such coziness between the cosmetics and film industries is a red flag. Lipstick is simply a bad commercial movie intended to sell Margaux Hemingway. Its excuse for existing is its very serious subject matter, which is packaged and disposed of rather neatly so as not to distract from Miss Hemingway's charms...
...fact that there is no poetic justice in the world of traveling violations and three-point plays shouldn't serve to distract from Harvard's efforts last Saturday. The fact that they outplayed their highly rated cross-town rivals but emerged with nothing concrete to show for it should not be soon forgotten, for the cagers proved that they have the talent to keep pace with, and defeat the majority of, their future opponents...
...faculty greeted the report - particularly its mentor recommendations - with "massive indifference," Hoskins remembers. If anything, only a small appendix note on a possible change in the lengths of the school term to save money caused any stir. But that stir was strong enough to distract the faculty from the other 117 pages of the Dahl Report. The appendix suggested that the school should remain open all year to try to increase tuition revenue without crowding classes. "The debate on the report waged on that appendix," William Kessen, Yale professor of psychology and committee member, recalls. Ironically, after all "that vigorous...
Does Russell actually believe such nonsense? Probably not, but it is a good excuse for hurling self-consciously shocking images upon the screen. These, in turn, are obviously designed to distract us from the fact that the film is intellectually bankrupt, unconcerned with historical characters or events. Russell's gift for imagery is undeniable; his outrages grab our attention even as common sense whispers that they are false, strained, childish in the worst sense. But the sensations have only a short-term effect; the mind cannot be conned. One leaves the theater feeling manipulated, ill-used, ripped...
...Square were pushing The Female Imagination for Mother's Day. Most of the writers Spacks critiques seem to have found motherhood a destructive condition--a cause for utmost ambivalence in virtually all women. The beautiful woman dreads that pregnancy will disfigure her. The career woman fears that motherhood will distract her. And the growing woman fears that motherhood will enslave her. Spacks again finds that an adolescent, in this case. Esther Greenwood from The Bell Jar, sees most explicitly the destructiveness which this particular kind of creativity can cause...