Word: distractive
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...several processional marches and court scenes. These measures were partially dictated by necessity, considering the limited confines of the room in which the show plays on the Freshman Union's second floor. But the lack of extravaganza also coincides strongly with Sakas's interpretation. Marches and elaborate sets only distract from the flow of the musical and the concentration on Arthur's story, and Sakas wants no distractions in this production. "We want it to hit home to people," he says...
Fuentes has not changed, however, is in his use of surrealism to express confusion and to perplex the reader. Although this technique is annoying at times, it does not distract from The Hydra Head's quick pace. If the bizarre seems pointless, sometimes, it does not inhibit one's desire to know where it all leads. Ultimately, the novel is frustrating: more and more it tells the reader less and less. Unlike traditional thrillers, the final scene leaves one with new questions rather than resolved mysteries...
...saying, as Murrow put it: "This is a tiny tithe, just a little bit of our profits . . . to indicate our belief in the importance of ideas." Murrow saw trouble "unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse and insulate us." Murrow that night was concerned, gloomy, a little shrill. He said he wasn't proposing to make television a 27-inch wailing wall, but his message sounded a bit like that. The power that Murrow wanted media lords like Paley to exercise is exactly...
...anyone's going to let fraudulent radiograms be introduced at a certification hearing for their newest nuclear installation. Attempted murder, Lemmon's singlehanded seizure of the plant, with a SWAT team coming through the control-room door and colleagues purposely fouling up the reactor to distract him while Fonda stands by to put his damning evidence on TV live, all follow...
...these points seem raised to distract the reader from the real question, the role and behavior of the conference organizers. On some campuses, it is true, organizers involved student governments in planning stages: my point, however, remains: that they did not involve the student bodies as a whole nor did they successfully tap into the active political movements on most campuses. At Harvard, the student body neither knew nor cared in large part about the conference, and the assembly was only peripherally involved. The Harvard organizations involved in the conference were involved only to the extent that individuals working...