Word: distracting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...creditors know that he cannot pay them all off -and that he will give first priority to those who bother him least about the delay. The plain fact is that Nasser could not pay even if he wanted to. His country is nearly bankrupt, and he hopes to distract his people from that looming fact by blaming Egypt's troubles on others...
Director Paolo Spinola seems to have realized he had a non-film on his hands. It opens with four minutes of enigmatic action, no dialogue; this may be Spinola's deliberate smoke-screen intended to distract us from the great poverty of visual narrative forthcoming. In like manner, every bogged-down scene has people fiddle with things to keep the camera amused. They light infinite cigarettes, they jerk curtain cords, while they talk, talk, and talk...
...news coverage had begun to show marked improvement; it has had an expanded foreign staff to call on ever since 1962, when it set up a joint news service with the Los Angeles Times. But the glamour of the big stories - whether national politics or events abroad - does not distract from home-town coverage. Post reporters track down local stories from the city's southwest slums to the bedroom suburbs of Maryland and Virginia...
After that, Holden wears one white glove, which flutters pointlessly throughout a performance that may well advance the date of his much-rumored retirement. Widmark typically does nothing to distract attention from his ineptitudes, among them a curious tendency to stumble over words of more than one syllable. He comes on, alas, with a Southern accent, and manages to sayound ez eeyuf heyuz tongue hayud tuhwurned intew a wawatermayelon. Fortunately, most of his scenes are stolen by his horse...
...seemed curious that the Kremlin had allowed him to leave. One theory had it that Tarsis' trip had been meant to distract attention from the trial of Soviet Writers Yuli Daniel and Andrei Sinyavsky (TIME, Feb. 18). According to a more ingenious version, he had promised the KGB (secret police) to publicly condemn Sinyavsky and Daniel when he reached London, then proceeded to do just the opposite. What seemed most likely, however, was that the Soviets had simply hoped that Tarsis would seek asylum of his own accord, thereby sparing them the problem of coping with a certified lunatic...