Word: instead
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...unthinkable that this country would allow its attention to be diverted from the crucial issues generated by an election year and focus instead on the shenanigans of the President's foolish brother...
Carter aides of this persuasion hope that the President, instead of looking back, can project a vision of where he wants to lead the country. To date, as shown all too clearly by his acceptance speech, Carter has been unable to form such a vision in his own mind, let alone enunciate...
...aware that the number of casualties is high. According to Moscow-based European diplomats, Soviet authorities have stopped burying soldiers with full military honors in an apparent attempt to divert attention from the deaths. Many of the seriously wounded have been flown for treatment to hospitals in East Germany instead of the U.S.S.R., apparently to conceal the extent of casualties...
...contrast, Speilberg has telescoped the film's middle section, which describes Roy's ascent, through madness, to the space traveler's wave length-his alienation. Instead of inching away from his baffled family into the cocoon of his tran scendence, Roy breaks with them in an abrasively strong scene, a kind of group tantrum. At the end, Roy enters the starship, and this time the audience goes with him-for a brief survey of the ship's angelic multiterraced interior. Roy grins beatifically; the wooden husband has turned into a real boy. Pinocchio lives...
...Krotkov seems uninterested in writing conventional thrillers. Instead, he has produced The Nobel Prize, a spy story of a different kind, about Boris Pasternak. According to the dust jacket, which does not mention Krotkov's secret police background, the author enjoyed "a close personal friendship with the Pasternak family." Though such a friendship between a KGB agent and Russia's great 20th century poet seems unlikely, Krotkov was indeed a frequent visitor to the home of Pasternak after he received the Nobel Prize for Literature...