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Notice how the still photos modestly complement, but never distract from, the series of charges--an income-tax form is the visual for "higher income taxes," an older person the visual for "increased taxes on Social Security," and so on.
The fact that Duvall gives such a glorious performance in The Apostle is likely to distract people from the fact that he has also written and directed a glorious movie--the most vivid and radiantly made of 1997.
USA Today , the New York Times and the WP all run President Clinton's forceful response to the suggestion made previously by senior Republicans that he ordered the airstrikes to distract from the drive to impeachment: "I don't think any serious person would believe that any president would do such a thing."
A more apt commentary appears on the LAT op-ed page in the form of a cartoon depicting a reporter asking President Clinton at a press conference, "How do we know these attacks aren't meant to distract us from distracting the country?"
This is a useful way to distract the reader's attention from gaps in logic and evidence, just as curry and spices were once used to make bad meat palatable.