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The purpose of a paradox is to arrest attention and provoke fresh thought.
Conscripted as part of journalism, images were expected to arrest attention, startle, surprise.
Todd Gitlin, a professor of journalism and sociology at Columbia University, predicted that, "if it got into four digits, that would arrest attention".
In a world saturated with 24-hour online news, it is curious how the front page still has the power to both arrest attention and to bear witness to world events; a fleeting record, yes, but in a digital world perhaps more permanent now than ever before.
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Crucially, there's a shortfall of the vital verbiage that arrests attention.
One does not often come upon a play that arrests attention and does not let go.
But in truth it's not enough to arrest the attention for an hour.
He should, through a mixture of make-up and attitude, arrest the attention of newspaper editors.
Barnum's key insight into how to arrest public attention was that, to some degree, Americans enjoy brazen exaggeration.
The performances aren't bad, but there is little in any of them to arrest the attention.
As in that earlier case, Mr. Bahomane's arrest received attention after a post by the free speech advocacy arm of Global Voices, an international network of bloggers.
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