Word: instead
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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What about "Blue Valentine?" "She went out one night without me and got in a fatal accident," he murmurs. "Luckily, no one was hurt." Instead, befitting his new line of work, Waits rolls down the boulevards in the safe anonymity of a rented sky-blue Monte Carlo...
...most outrageous of Belgrader's devices, with a pouting, resonant voice that undoubtedly reminded more than one member of the audience of Tony Randall. Bored, not spiteful, puzzled rather than offended by the folly around him, he delivers the set-piece "seven ages of man" speech with weltschmertz instead of venom...
Opposition among the university's trustees led to the decision to appoint Hackney instead of Gregorian despite "strong support" for the provost, the reporter added. No official comment was available...
Congressional backing of beam-weapons development is growing. Support has come from Defense Secretary Harold Brown too, though he has ordered research on lasers to stress space missions instead of such closer-to-earth uses as defense of ships and missile sites...
Along the way he entertains various fantasies of telling off not just the client but the whole damn world. That's about it. Di rector Trent has no sense of style; Writer Kleinschmitt pencils in obscenities for his characters to spout instead of lines that the actors might savor delivering. Neither Dern nor Ann-Margret is ever able to get into character. They try gamely, but they remain sociological abstractions pasted into a tasteless, materialistic milieu that has been overexplored by novelists and moviemakers...