Word: smokescreen
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...timid, in the end, touchingly rash. Stunningly miscast as the Jamesian relic of a more gracious age. Franchise Rosay, with her Gallic accent and facial gestures, seems rooted in some irascible French family film. Maurice Evans elegantly elocutes lines that might better be spoken, but the talk is a smokescreen for a character that isn't there...
...kind of bargain Taj Mahal is already infiltrating contemporary architecture as portents of failure." Chief practitioner of this kind of architecture, says Rudofsky, is Edward D. Stone, famed for the neo-Moorish latticework walls he wraps around his buildings: "He throws in a veil of mechanical ornament, a smokescreen of stone, so that you can't see the structure behind...
Aaron claimed that "the matter of enthusiasm is used by the HDC and the student members of the Advisory Committee as a smokescreen of confusion." Any student can learn and have fun at the same time, he said, and "there must be something wrong with students who don't want to work under more experienced directors." A university theatre theatre should be an educational facility, he concluded...
Once the Nationalists have silenced the English Press they will be able to draw a smokescreen over any future riots and disturbances. The outside world relies to a large extent on the ability of reporters employed by the English Press for stories about conditions in South Africa...
Despite the fact that the health issue is at the heart of the matter, the industry continues to deny adamantly any direct or "causal" cancer-smoking link. It has spent $3,700,000 to set up the Tobacco Industry Research Committee, which is widely regarded as only a smokescreen for the industry. But fortnight ago two reports came out from medical groups partly financed by the committee, holding that 1) smoking taxes damaged hearts, and 2) tobacco users absorb 90% of the nicotine to which they are exposed...