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"...Janet Reno betrayed the negotiators, apparently intentionally using the distraction of the false phone negotiations to set a stage..."

May 12, 2000 Column

HighLife Cafe

Restaurants You Shouldn't Miss

"...and quiet and/or intelligent conversation, without the hubbub and distraction found at other popular downtown spots. Don't get me..."

March 17, 2000 Food Feature by Rebecca Chastenet dé Gery

Daniel Johnston Live in Berlin (Stress)Danny & the Nightmares

SXSW Records

"...bare-bones cassette recordings of his songs, which offers no distraction or embellishment to the fact that he pours out..."

March 17, 2000 Music Review by Ken Lieck

Everything That Rises Must Converge

SXSW 2000 Interactive Festival

"...occasional enemy as well, although panelists waded through the distractions to offer opinions on topics ranging from the AOL/Time..."

March 17, 2000 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Boy Raises Man

Yes, "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" often sidesteps grief and even undermines its critics by slyly layering the self-deprecation. Chronicle contributor Stuart Wade explains why, In Eggers' hands, it works.

"...even, the mood buoyant. ... It's a campaign of distraction and revisionist history-leaflets dropped behind enemy lines, fireworks, funny..."

March 3, 2000 Books Feature by Stuart Wade

Council Watch

Important Council actions in 1999 and what's on the agenda for 2000.

"...supply was enough to drive some hard-core greens to distraction. Whether or not we eventually become, as some have..."

Jan. 7, 2000 News Column by Jenny Staff Johnson

Ringo Starr I Wanna Be Santa Claus (Mercury)

Xmas Records

"...predictably, it seems both endless and charmless, a sad distraction from Ringo's mostly right-on rockin' versions of standards from..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Music Review by Ken Lieck

Brenda Lee Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree (MCA/Decca)

Xmas Records

"...Some regional Cajun flavor with "Papa Noel" and novelty distraction with "I'm Gonna Lasso Santa Claus" offer a little..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Scavengers of the Vast Wasteland

Whether they're riffing on punk, metal, funk, jazz, film scores, or even klezmer music, Brown Whörnet attacks each passage with a vociferous intensity that seldom fails to keep an audience at attention.

"...aural scavengers of the vast wasteland, being driven to distraction every few seconds may well be the band's strongest..."

Sept. 10, 1999 Music Feature by Greg Beets

How Do You Get to Arrakis?

July 30, 1999 Books Feature

Ben's Turn

"...alternate between semi-rapt attention during the presentations, to summer's-almost-here distraction in between. Ben Lowe, a child with autism, is..."

June 4, 1999 News Feature

Exhibitionism

God's Trombones: Say Amen, Somebody

"...in his hand throughout -- a bit of a distraction in that no attempt is made to make his..."

May 28, 1999 Arts Review

Undercover on High School's Ritziest Glitziest Night It All Goes Down at Prom

"...her friends nearby. I am relieved to have the distraction. I am just panting after the last bars of..."

May 14, 1999 Arts Feature

Eat His Dust

Ron Howard Premieres EDtv in Austin

"...I always thought it would be kind of a distraction. But here it's almost an in-joke, so it works..."

March 26, 1999 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Get It While You Can

"...in "The Movement," the results become more of a distraction to the narrative than a complement...."

March 19, 1999 Books Feature

Exhibitionism

The Suida Manning Collection: the Renaissance Is Here

"...welcome opportunity to hear the glorious music without ambulatory distraction and allowed the audience to feel the sun coming..."

March 12, 1999 Arts Review

Postmarks

Losing Our Lunch

"...shops, excess noise from brake squeal and unnecessary acceleration, distraction from normal driving habits, excess fuel use and additional..."

Feb. 12, 1999 Column

Dancing About Architecture

"...Johnson), who are all confirmed smokers. Just imagine the distraction a group like that suffers after a couple of..."

Feb. 12, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Postscripts

"...At 7pm, Bruce Sterling reads from his latest novel, Distraction. From 3-5pm, Adventures in Crime & Space (609-A W...."

Jan. 29, 1999 Books Column by Clay Smith

On the Lege

Boxed Out

"...he said legislators can "either view it as a distraction, or seize it as an opportunity to show what..."

Jan. 29, 1999 News Column

That Was the Year That Was

Impatience Is a Virtue

"...council was allowed to conduct its business without the distraction of people angling to take their jobs. But in..."

Jan. 1, 1999 News Column by Jenny Staff

Season's Grazings

"...is that my family's interminable zaniness is never a distraction from the real occasion; it is itself the cause..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Food Feature

Murder in the Suburbs

Good Luck Penny

"...just about everyone in the courtroom was bored to distraction. At that point, many of those who came to..."

Dec. 11, 1998 News Feature by Kayte VanScoy

Belated Replies

"...And e-mail is out of the question; too much distraction. How could the novel ever get done if one..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Column by Michael Ventura

Exhibitionism

O.t.: Court and Spark

"...of the ball. It was, in many ways, a distraction. It was also, in many ways, a thrill. Maybe..."

Oct. 23, 1998 Arts Review

Libertarians on TV

Conspiracy Theorists at Home on Public Access

"...acknowledge it exists, saying it would just be a "distraction" from "the movement." But Davis was less reticent, though..."

Aug. 7, 1998 News Column by Lee Nichols

The Waiting Is the Hardest Part

How Mr. Denton Spent His Summer Vacation

"...Austinites William Browning Spencer (Irrational Fears) and Bruce Sterling (Distraction due in the fall). The tentative agenda can be..."

July 31, 1998 Books Feature by Mike Shea

Webb on the Web

Don Webb: Surreal but Awake

"...in San Francisco, because there would be too much distraction. Austin has exactly the right mix. There's certain aspects..."

July 31, 1998 Screens Feature by Jon Lebkowsky

Exhibitionism

America Hurrah: period piece

"...the audience to watch them do their best without distraction. —Dawn Davis..."

May 8, 1998 Arts Review

Is That a Biography in Your Pocket...?

Film Folios and Screen Prints

"...Edmonton, where cast and crew were isolated from big-city distraction. According to Dave Thomas, it was this forced togetherness..."

March 13, 1998 Books Review

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