Word: diversionism
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From the opening curtain on, exoticism was in the air. Leningrad's Kirov Ballet, embarking on a four-city, eight-week U.S. tour, chose to lead off its engagement at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House last week with Le Corsaire, a full-length ballet that very few Americans have ever...
In a discussion of the Iran-Contra affair, the panel--which included President of the Ohio State Senate Stanley J. Aronoff '54--agreed that Lt. Col. Oliver North should be imprisoned for his role in the diversion of Iranian arms sales profits to the Nicaraguan contras.
That is sage advice for viewers of Earth Girls Are Easy, the movies' first postmodernist musical comedy. This divine diversion is best approached in a fruit-cocktail state of mind. With its amiable aliens getting their pop culture out of a TV set and its hydraulic surf bunnies singing "I...
-- "The most precious commodity to us is time," agree architect Trunzo and his wife Candace, both 41 and parents of two. "We have tried to simplify our lives as much as possible." Candace believes she and her husband are living "better lives than our parents. More hectic. But fuller." James...
The problem today, however, is that this curiosity is drawing our attention from substantive concerns. We may applaud the fact that the Bush White House is a lot more open than the secretive and "basement" attitudes of the Reagan days, but the press is reporting the diversion, not the issue...