Word: distracting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will point and illustrate the exceptional verbal wit of the text, Mr. McBain has chosen to give his players few props and less stage business: seldom have I seen so many actors standing meditatively with arms folded. When they are given business, it is as likely as not to distract substantially from the words of other characters then speaking. On occasion, the stage groupings extended across so broad a space that I was forced to choose between watching the speaker and following another character's elaborate pantomime of reaction. Where the pay requires both speed and variation of pace...
...habit of hitching up his trousers while onstage. He was tough on prankish Arnold Steinhardt, to give him discipline; with shy Kyung-Wha Chung, a co-winner of the 1967 Leventritt Award, he was kindly and patient, to give her confidence. Galamian constantly worries that sex will distract his best students from their careers. At Meadowmount, the summer school for string players he founded in upstate New York, his most famous exhortation is: "Don't go in the bushes...
...function with a sort of determined elegance rare to house stages. Equally significant is Mr. Bloch's decision to emphasize the inherent humor of line and situation, and to use a liberal hand in devising comic business. Although occasionally subtle antics which animate the human background throughout the evening distract from more important actions, the general effect is one of rich detail, and this must be judged a special pleasure while Harvard theater is so often plagued by underrealized staging. Much of the politically cheering impact of this production derives directly from its humor, as further embodied in Mr. Sabel...
...much as the next man, whether it is baseball, or a panel discussion or Bonanza. But when TV tries to get in tune with classical music, Horowitz tunes out. "Everything I've seen on music has been a flop," he says. "There are too many things that distract the eye at the expense of the ear. With a symphony orchestra you jump around the sections. With a singer you see tonsils...
...front of one of those ultrachic, applesauce-green beach houses that line the Pacific Coast Highway at Malibu. The sun is so bright that I'm convinced it's bleaching the blue right out of the new pullover I'd bought only that morning to distract California eyes from a bad case of East Coast pallor...