Word: detract
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Ray starts getting suspicious of Mickey's long afternoons at the office, he and his chubby editor play detective as they trail Scotty to a warehouse. Their efforts are almost comical and the middle-aged Starsky and Hutch do nothing more than detract from an already faltering thriller...
Richardson press secretary David Gilroy Countered yesterday that Shamie has tried to focus on the tax issue to detract attention from Richardson's proposals for a nuclear freeze, conflict prevention, and environmental issues. But he added, "Taxes are obviously a very emotional issue...
More than content, however. Greer's language and tone detract from Sex and Destiny. Germaine Greer is an intelligence and powerful writer who can not seem to stay detached enough to avoid occasional over emotionalizing and a holier than thou tone. All told, however, these lapses do not dominate the work: Sex and Destiny remains a powerful treatise, certain to provoke a number of equally impassioned responses...
...some fine performances bring a freshness to the cliches. As Marsh, Barry Nelson brings a deft comic touch to the role, allowing us to see moments of softness. Only when Nelson tries to sing does the quality drop, but since this seems to be in character it doesn't detract from his portrayal. Dolores Gray's nasal, somewhat harsh voice is rather discordant, but is also in keeping with the arrogant character of the untalented prima donna whose injury opens the road to fame for our heroine Peggy Sawyer, although she often appears a bit too secure for a little...
...little evident in this tour, he defers, rather, to the role of editor and prompter. It is, in a sense, too thorough a tour--one which takes us into too many obscure nooks and crannies of the Irish literary landscape. And too often these unremarkable "bits and pieces" detract from the more important voices--limiting our visit to Swift, for example, to a few rather trivial verses in praise of gardens. The result, then, of this compilation is a thinly disguised anthology. It includes, for the sake of thoroughness, a host of contributors that should be, and for the most...