Word: instead
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...managed to tap himself back to sanity, sliding and kicking off the disease that had tormented him, kept him from performing. When he got out he looked up his old friend Sandman Sims. The two had not spoken in 15 years; they didn't say hello. Instead each tapped a quick step, drawing together with their feet...
...thanks to sponsors like the National Film Board of Canada, dozens of artists doodle away. None produces characters so round or squeaky-cute as Disney's or as bawdy and animalistic as Bakshi's. Instead they often depict very real people in not-so-real situations. The best of these is Why Me?, the story of Nesbitt Spoon, an average CPA-type who learns from his doctor that he has only a short time to live--five minutes (and counting). Understandably, Mr. Spoon panics, and his creators have scripted their story so well that it matches perfectly the stages...
Clearly unwilling to preach about "moral dignity," Vonnegut instead spoke in parables and metaphors. Channing lived in America's close-knit "folk society," Vonnegut said. It was an "American Atlantis, swamped by the waves of immigrants...
Charities, Bakal argues, should be subject to some truth-in-giving regulation. He charges that, in its fund-raising appeals, the Red Cross often avoids mentioning that it helps servicemen with financial aid and counseling. Instead, the organization promotes its more popular activities, notably disaster relief...
...information over ashak canapes (leek-stuffed pastry in a sour cream broth) and mutton, or drinking Czech pilsner beer in the hotel bar. Here one evening last week a sheepish employee announced that all American newsmen were to have their passports checked in the lobby by two Afghan policemen. Instead, the U.S. newsmen sallied forth with blazing floodlights and whirring film cameras. Terrified, the Afghan policemen fled. But the reprieve was short-lived. By 8 the next morning, armed Afghan police sealed off the hotel and placed the 20 or so Americans there under house arrest until they could...