Word: smokescreen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could easily be dismissed as a collection of very naive and impressionable better-government types. But most people in this city, especially those who get themselves involved in elections, are savvy--opponents have labelled the depolarization campaign a smokescreen, charging that behind it lies a well-financed arm of the city's anti-rent control, pro-condo conversion faction...
...claim that the U.S. is the persecutor of dissidents. It awarded the Lenin Peace Prize to Communist Angela Davis, a onetime activist who now lectures at San Francisco State University on ethnic and women's studies. Davis, told reporters that publicity about Soviet dissidents was "a smokescreen to prevent Americans from understanding oppression at home...
...interest lawyers are not so pleased; one calls Morgan a "moral Houdini." In addition to representing Sears, Morgan is paid a retainer by the Tobacco Institute to argue "smokers' rights." Protests Mark Green, director of Congress Watch, a Nader consumer lobby: "Morgan is using civil liberties as a smokescreen for corporate interests. It's really a bizarre evolution for a public interest lawyer...
...have learned from recent experience, committees related to the South African issue do not get anything done. We support the Kennedy School student association's vote not to participate in the committee, which is a smokescreen intended to cover the administration's unwillingness to effect any change that has any chance of offending potential donors...
...Beaumarchais' The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro, "and the playwright was a wild, extraordinary man, a pamphleteer and a music teacher. But very soon after he wrote them, one was taken over by Rossini and the other by Mozart, and the operas effectively put a smokescreen over the originals. Cutting and combining the two plays gives the whole show a fascinating irony. The first play was lighter-hearted, and ended happily with the Count marrying the girl, Rosina. But in the second play, the situation changes--the Count, the hero of the first part, is trying...