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Word: instead (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Bobby DiCicco is the eyetalian who wants to open a bagel shop when he gets home. Kelly Ward is the quiet cartoonist who draws pictures when he's not drawing fire. And Robert Carradine is Sam Fuller, a scruffy, fast-talking writer from Brooklyn who lives on cigar smoke instead of oxygen...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: The Fine Art of Survival | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

...nurse. The image is a sardonic joke and undoubtedly meant to mirror the audience, but thousands of humorless nurses and women are picketing the film across the country, claiming it presents violence against women as erotic. They ought to be out marching against Humanoids from the Deep instead of wasting their time on a passable thriller with a sense of humor and delusions of grandeur, where the violence against women is sickening, not erotic...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: The Monsters Within Us | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

...City Council brought suit to block the Red Line extension, which was originally slated to go from Harvard all the way to Arlington. They lost the suit and construction continued, as did the problems. Before the construction even began, tight finances cut short the line at Alewife Brook Parkway instead of Arlington. But once the MBTA surmounted the legal and financial battles a few years ago, the plan hit few other hurdles--until...

Author: By Esme C. Murphy, | Title: The Red Line: Will the MBTA's Troubles Never Cease? | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

...Hello, Mr. Linkmuller, I'm a high-level administrator. I'm very sorry, but there has been a mistake. We were mistaken in calling you the Mistake. The company that prints the red dots we use on registration envelopes mistakenly sent us a batch of purple ones instead. Somehow a mistake was made and one of those purple ones--which we use to signify the Mistake--was placed on your packet instead...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: Woops | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

...smorgasbord of morsels instead of a bold strategy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Carter's New Economics | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

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