Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fiance (Bill Pullman) is shown to be, quite literally, a drip (allergies make his nose run); the woman Sam takes up with (Barbara Garrick) has a grating laugh. The movie condescends to both of them rather unfunnily. And, anyway, they begin to seem like time fillers, something to divert us from the fact that this film really has no center. Hanks and Ryan are, as usual, charming, and so are Malinger as destiny's underage enabler, Gaby Hoffmann as his girlfriend, eagerly egging him on, and Rosie O'Donnell as Ryan's newspaper pal. They are all given some chuckly...
...real source of Harvard's race relations problem is the administration. By wasting money on race relations offices and their staffs, the University provides a lightning rod for eggheads to latch onto, Then, instead of acting as genuine representatives, the egghead divert their ostensibly cultural organizations from their real purposes...
...crime and less punishment. District Attorney John Phillips has advised police chiefs of San Joaquin County that a budget crunch prevents him from prosecuting most misdemeanors. He faces a $1.1 million, or 22%, cut in his budget on June 30 if Governor Pete Wilson carries out a plan to divert local property-tax revenue to state coffers. Warned Phillips: "We have no choice but to commit remaining resources to the prosecution of the most serious crimes." Among misdemeanors, only drunken driving, domestic violence and resisting arrest will be prosecuted. Phillips may be trying to scare the Governor, but meanwhile small...
America is going to war in the Balkans. Maybe not this month, maybe not this year, but soon enough we will be fighting there. Like the Vietnam conflict it so closely resembles, this war will sap our nation's energy and divert our attention from our domestic problems...
...lack of any evidence of irresponsibility on our part, combined with its street-corner language, reveal the effort as a desperate, groundless attempt to divert attention from the news (and the council) and focus it on the newspaper...