Word: distracting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usual, she appeared from behind the pale green curtains dressed in a simple short black frock ("It is my uniform -I am soldier"), her dark brown hair frumpily frizzled, her gaminish face almost bare of makeup. (Says Piaf: "I don't like my appearance to distract . . .") Then, announcing her own numbers in newly learned English, like a ten-year-old reciting Longfellow, she packed them all off to Paree...
...become a prosperous Seattle haberdasher, gave some pointers on dress. "Don't apply for a job in a sports jacket, sweater, T-shirt, or without a tie . . . Don't hit your prospective boss in the eye with a loud tie, or you'll distract his attention from what you are saying." The minimum wardrobe for a job holder: three medium-priced suits (never worn twice in succession), two pairs of shoes-and a hat. "College graduates frequently don't realize the importance of wearing hats'," said Haberdasher Eckmann, following the hatmakers' party line...
...unlikely, for example, that the changes will include facilities for smokers. As it is, girls studying in the Fiske Room not only interrupt their own studying when they go out for a cigarette, but also distract non-smokers. If smoking were limited to one room, perhaps in the basement, the cost of effective ventilation would not be extravagant and it would be a considerable convenience to all girls. Another universal complaint, which will probably not be fully corrected in the new scheme, concerns the straight wooden chairs. They might have done very well in the more straight-laced days forty...
Better Not to Weep. But the outcome, by all signs, was many weeks away. If they could help it, the Reds were not even going to let the charge come to the point of a legal decision. Inside & outside the court they did their best to delay, distract and confuse. The faithful, chanting "solidarity forever," marched in dogged droves outside the courthouse. City authorities assembled 400 policemen in the streets and in nearby buildings-just in case...
There is little novel interpretation of character: even that might distract from the great language, or distort it. There is no clear placement in time, no outside world except blind sky, faint landscapes, ruminant surf, a lyrical brook. The camera, prowling and peering about the cavernous castle, creates a kind of continuum of time and space. Such castles were almost as naked of furniture as the Elizabethan stage; Olivier uses both facts to the film's advantage. Not even the costumes are distracting; they are close to the simplest mind's-eye image: a King & Queen like playing...