Word: distraction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...does feel the solidity of both actors and sets. The curving screen, however, two-and-a-half times as wide as it is tall, presents unique problems of composition. Director Henry Koster carefully avoids small grouping of actors, but when close-ups are necessary, vast expanses of background distract to the right and left...
...speakers say? Secondly, has not a newspaper some obligation (to the speaker himself) to give a fairly balanced account . . .?" Hartnett was considering a drastic remedy: "I for one am strongly tempted to omit public criticism of Mr. McCarthy in the future, because I do not want to continue to distract reporters or editors from opinions I wish to express on other subjects ... If the Senator is guilty of publicity-seeking, as the Times very likely thinks he is, he seems [to get] gratuitous cooperation from anti-McCarthy publications, including, I fear, the Times...
...McCarthy is so weak and unpopular ass you claim, why is he a menace? . . .First you bring him to "menace" proportions to distract us from the fact there were Reds in the Government, and then try to pooh pooh him away when this purpose has been accomplished...
...Salome (Rita Hayworth) was just a nice, healthy girl over whom men lost their heads-figuratively rather than literally. And she danced her famous dance of the seven veils not to lure Herod into serving up the Prophet's head on a platter but merely to distract the King while a handsome Roman commander (Stewart Granger), a secret convert to John's Christian teachings, tried to free...
Steadman, who jousted daily on the Editorial page of last Year's News, claims it is "a piece of red serge used by the matador for passes and to distract the bull at the kill...