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...side has used time after time in election after election," Obama said. "Yes, we know what's coming. I'm not naive. We've already seen it, the same names and labels they always pin on everyone who doesn't agree with all their ideas, the same efforts to distract us from the issues that affect our lives, by pouncing on every gaffe and association and fake controversy, in the hopes that the media will play along...
...other than Gibbons’ pipes, the two albums share very little in common. While “Dummy” was an electronic beast in pop-music clothing, “Third” is a sterile, deconstructed affair that doesn’t deceive or distract from what it is for an instant. And while nothing can quite compare to the beautiful lie that Gibbons told on “Sour Times” (“Nobody loves me, it’s true / Not like you”), “Third” manages...
...media and consumers of Europe and the United States distract themselves with China’s efforts to avoid a public-relations catastrophe before and during the Beijing Olympics, perhaps they should pay more heed to another growing problem. Though the nascent squeeze on rice supplies appears to have remained under the Western radar thus far, it has the potential to directly affect more people and cause even more violence than the horrors we have heard of from Tibet...
...Don?t know about that. I am not certain that the sight of Segal?s thingy adds greatly to the gaiety of nations. And it?s possible that this hoo-ha will distract us from the fact that this is not a bad little comedy. People tend to focus on the raunchy premises of Apatow?s work (he produced the film, and Segel, director Nicholas Stoller and some of the actors are veteran collaborators), while ignoring the qualities that made movies like The 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up and Superbad such mighty hits, which is a certain wistfulness...
This afternoon, Harvard students will congregate in Tercentenary Theater for an orgy of hot dogs and background music. The administration and its student handmaidens will dole out a concentrated blast of merriment to distract us from merriment missing elsewhere. White plastic barriers will border out a little rectangle of joy and shouting. And at the center of this spectacle, splashed across all of Yardfest’s promotional literature and giving form to its carefree spirit, will be the tire swing...