Word: distractive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stars are cool and funny in these passages. But in the reach for psychic novelty, the script exceeds its grasp on persuasive reality. Neither jokes nor fast, flashy action can completely distract audiences from the failure to establish an authentic, rather than a purely conventional connection between Nolte and Murphy...
...arms but through force of mind and spirit. The temptation, which has become almost a generic convention, is for film makers to adopt a dehumanizing reverence, which creates a holy void, a sort of white hole, at the center of the film. Meanwhile, they hope that background bustle will distract audiences from noticing that the protagonist seems to be on permanent leave of absence...
...into environmental lullabies. Most of the cassettes were initially marketed to hospitals, doctors and dentists, but, reports James Spencer, president of Environmental Video Inc. of Manhattan Beach, Calif., "we are finding that the consumer is more interested than the medical market." The tapes are made to glance at, to distract, not to watch. Sitting down for a serious look at Video Fish One ($39.95 retail), which is a close-up study of an aquarium, may lead to such insidious side effects as glazed eyes and numbed gray cells. It probably looks better from a dentist's chair...
...restraint was now gone Their faces were flushed, and the niceties of diplomatic language and protocol were stopped away. They had almost forgotten I was there, and there was nothing to distract me from recording this fascinating debate...
Today St. John is ranked third in her racing class. She has her eye on an upcoming international competition in Austria, and she plans to take next semester off so school work won't distract her during the skiing season...