Word: distracter
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Vajpayee is playing a delicate political game. And that's taking India into another dangerous phase, where the [ruling Bharatiya Janata party] is revealing its hand, trying to exploit Hindu nationalist sentiments around the Ayodhya issue. Some observers believe that he may be doing this as something of a distraction for his supporters, trying to create political space for himself to push through tough economic measures, which he desperately needs to do. The government is basically bankrupt, and India is facing an economic slowdown. We're heading back into a terrible mess, but in a democracy as politically fractured...
...believe that for almost half of their lives, Clinton has caused the sun to rise and the chickens to lay and the Velcro to stick and the markets to prosper. If you demur by even a twitch (the matter of impeachment, or a pharmaceuticals factory missiled in Khartoum to distract the media from the spectacle of the President receiving oral sex from a very young intern in the Oval Office), they wrinkle their noses and look away, perplexed by the difficulty of knowing what the meaning...
...library would take two or three years to build and would involve heavy construction that could distract students in classrooms with noise and obstructions on the campus grounds...
...nondescript nature of his assignments serve as a springboard for experimentation, framing shots in the most unconventional ways - and thus "Wagon Wheel Joe" was born. Lewis told Peter Bogdanovich in an interview that appears in the book "Who the Devil Made It," I thought to myself 'How can I distract the audience from this... I put a wagon wheel in front of the camera; you looked at it - it was an artistic shot - and before you could analyze the scene, it was over...
...actually wearing blue jeans and munching on French fries in a coffee shop on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, "and I think, 'Whoa! I want to be that girl.'" Today, except for the occasional swear word, she's very low-key. She's doing nothing to distract us from her one truly remarkable, and too often ignored, aspect: her admirable versatility as an actress...