Word: diversionism
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Like most Hollywood productions, this is high-level illusion. Geffen, who is gay, lobbied the President to lift the ban on homosexuals in the military. Geffen stands to gain from the crackdown on the Chinese black market in American videos and CDs that his friend Mickey Kantor, the U.S. Trade...
We can only speculate on what became of Oliver Schmidt's research. Perhaps one of the skate rats wandered across the street from the pit by the T station and discovered the unlocked bike. Maybe the composition books full of notes on German-American relations provided a brief diversion from...
Harvard students cringe at the though of detour. They, or I should say we, have our set plans and goals and wish to take the most direct route. Often, with such determined direction in mind, we neglect to take time out for diversion or distraction. Because we sometimes choose to...
IN DEFENSE OF JUDGE LANCE ITO, WHOM you accuse of taking time "to usher celebrities into his chambers," let me offer a personal experience. My wife Lynne was found to have a malignant brain tumor in October 1994, when she was 35 years old. She followed the Simpson proceedings religiously...
Speer is a longer book than it should be. Protracted quotes from Sereny's interviews, while fascinating in their own right, lead to a wobbly, repetitive narrative that often lurches down bootless byways. A meeting with a Swedish diplomat, for example, provides Sereny with the excuse for a four-page...