Word: diversionism
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It could hardly have come at a better time. The U.S., too long assailed by inflation, shortages and Watergate, sorely needed a diversion. Combatting the sour mood was scarcely behind the students' exuberant rush to take it off; students have never really needed much of a reason to cavort...
This ambiguity gives Man on a Swing its suspense and makes it a rather entertaining diversion. What makes it something more than this is Joel Grey's Franklin Wills, a performance of such menacing subcurrents, so shrewdly and subtly conveyed, that it galvanizes the entire film. Grey won an...
Venice. The golden age of music in Venice is played by the Aeolian Consort. Good for a Sunday diversion after a long walk to Dunster.
Centaurs, parakeets, a curly tailed unicorn resting on a carpet of flowers while pomegranate juices drip on its milky hide; heraldic crests, peasants reaping, Hector girding himself in 15th century steel, slim ladies picnicking in the everlasting green glow of a medieval Arcadia-the great exhibition of 14th to 16th...
The suspicion must exist, of course, that the constant emphasis on corruption is like those "crime waves" that newspapers used to discover in slack periods when no other story dominated the head lines. Any story with however tenuous a "Watergate angle" has a better chance of making the front page...