Word: instead
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suntan instead of slapdash makeup jobs; no lectern to hide behind. Ailes kept the set simple, the colors manly. Once Chicago set designers tried to use oh-so-chic turquoise curtains as a back drop. "Those stupid bastards," railed Ailes. "Nixon wouldn't have looked right unless he was carrying a pocketbook...
...have known ever since I was a little kid came down the street. He was 82 years old, and he is of no earthly use as far as we mortals can tell. And the thought hit me strongly, now why couldn't it have been old George instead...
...magician's most famous trick. Thfir success lies in their invitation to be touched and poked and in their quality of surprise. Where other artists in the past would change the color or shape of the objects they treated, Oldenburg keeps those qualities as they are and instead changes their context (a hamburger sits on the floor), size (small things become gigantic) and state (soft instead of hard). The result is a sculpture of enormous intellectual compression; it shows the stress of gravity, the effect of age, the possibility of sensuality. As a result, his sculptures force the viewer...
...reason she did not was MIST, Medical Information Service via Telephone, a new consultation service created last July by the Medical College of Alabama in Birmingham. Until the advent of MIST, all the woman's doctor could have done was to seek help at random. Instead, he was able to telephone a central switchboard; the operator immediately put him through to MIST's pharmacologist, whose specialized knowledge may have saved the patient's life...
...minutes of trading on the morning after the election, $250 million poured into the Bundesbank from abroad. The outgoing Kiesinger government was in no position to stanch the flow by making the mark more expensive; that is the sort of basic decision traditionally left to the new government. Instead, the Bundesbank freed the mark to be traded at just about any price that buyers were willing to pay. The IMF cooperated by ignoring the rule that governments must maintain their currencies within a 1% margin above or below the fixed-exchange rates...