Word: diversionism
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The Rat Pack's idea, such as it was, was to do a movie in a friendly town (Vegas, Chicago) or familiar genre (caper, Western, gangster movie) and apply to it a bit of the ad-lib roguery they brought to their nightclub gigs. The slapdash nature of the script...
“I finally made it to Harvard,” shouted Third Eye Blind frontman Stephan Jenkins to a huddled mass of enthusiastic undergraduates at this year’s damp Yardfest. The singer proceeded to don a top hat and take off his shoes, in a dissonant...
There’s only one question more agonizing than “You go to Harvard?”, and that’s the inevitable follow-up: “What are you studying?” Say English or Hist and Lit and watch admiration turn to...
Pundits often talk about the digression of our society via the television, the fact that our American minds are being warped by the horrors on broadcast TV—the very shows we turn to for a much-needed diversion from the difficulties of reality. As a columnist in a...
Star Spangled Rhythm: "Betty Hutton, during a wild, bruising ride in a jeep, sings a ditty known as I'm Doin' It for Defense." Let's Face It: "Throaty Betty Hutton provides a diversion with a machine-gun-speed offering of Let's Not Talk About Love." And the Angels...