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But for those of us who cherish art for art's sake, gussying it up with photos, paint samples, and teapots merely trivializes and distracts.
The Times of London, urging "an immediate intensification of military activities aimed directly at the Yugoslav army" in Kosovo, said in an editorial Monday that it is not so evident that the "Somalia Syndrome" "really affects ordinary Americans as much as it distracts their nervous elected representatives."
Simply say, "Mother, you know I love you, but the noise of your eating while talking on the phone distracts me from what you're saying."
"Not in the lots of big words sense, not in the complicated ideas that make your head hurt sense, not in the having to think about stuff so hard that it distracts you from shopping and later that night you have that little sexual problem again, not me personally but some other stupider people sense," he didn't add.
Although the artist's biography may be interesting, and at times inspiring (as is the case with Henri Matisse), it more often than not distracts from the work and leads to the most inane and invalid interpretations.