Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...generously muscled O'Keeffe utters not an intelligible word-only Tarzan's patented bull-elephant yodel. As for Bo's acting, she sucks in her stomach to look pretty and chews her cuticles to suggest fear. Alas, all the displays of Bo's body cannot divert attention from the ludicrous ineptness of the enterprise. Nothing breaks a tumid erotic spell faster than giggling...
Meanwhile, on another front entirely, national leaders have sprung up who seem incapable of second thoughts. Rather than divert their gaze from the silent toy within their reach, they muse and wonder what the thing might actually accomplish. These bombs have lain shelved for quite a while now, and a test is only a test, after all. Nor is such madness confined to the certifiable. Even the meekest citizen knows moments wherein he dreams of Armageddon. Whence otherwise could come such colliding terms as "population explosion" and "baby boom" but the amazing bicameral mind? It is a two-pole world...
...effect, Lichtenstein's show invites us to have the cake and eat it too-to see his work as part of a "heroic" historical continuum while deriding the cliches to which that continuum has been worn down. But this cannot divert the suspicion that, for all his manifest abilities as wit and designer, his art has become repetitious. -By Robert Hughes
...pleas for aid, Poland has promised to slash its imports and divert products from domestic consumption to boost exports. Those pledges will be hard to fulfill in a country where sinking living standards have generated social upheaval. Shops already stock no rice, jam or fruit, except for apples. Meat is rationed at a little over a pound per person per week. The seemingly interminable lines outside the stores are a constant source of black humor. One joke now making the rounds...
...little resemblance to the chart-topping fodder of Kenny Rogers or the cuddlesome crooning of Eddie Rabbitt. Anyone who considers that those old boys sing country music is guaranteed to be mixed up and maybe a little unsettled by Joe Ely. Country slickers like Eddie and Kenny have helped divert the mainstream of Nashville about 1,600 miles west, right into the middle of Las Vegas, where a soft pedal steel guitar can set up a gentle rhythm for the slots...