Word: instead
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...drill in the ear. Pavlov's dog hears and picks the damned thing up. The Satanic bleats from some new phones are the equivalent of sound lasers. Don't hurt me again, says the dog. I'll talk. Perhaps the phone that looks like a duck decoy and quacks instead of ring will breed new species -- phones that bark or baaa or moo or, maybe, sound like distant summer thunder...
...about it. I don't know how much time you spend glued to the Weather Channel, but here's what I learned watching it one night: it makes sense to run ceiling fans in the winter! Just turn the blades so they push the air down. Instead of cold feet and warm ceilings, a gently rotating fan will even things out so you don't have to turn the heat up so high. (In summer switch the direction of the blades and increase the speed. The wind chill will make it feel like 72 degrees, even though the thermostat...
...Bush Administration is not amused by E.P.I.'s new math. An Education Department rebuttal says the institute has mixed "apples, oranges and moonbeams to produce an indigestible concoction." By measuring education spending as a percentage of national income instead of comparing dollars spent, it says, E.P.I. uses a methodology that is "seriously flawed." But the study does, in fact, compare per pupil expenditures as well. Result: the U.S. comes in ninth out of 16. "No matter how you do it, we're a low spender," says Lawrence Mishel, co-author of the report. "We're definitely not as Bush claims...
...since his grandfather, Reuben Blades, was born on the British island of St. Lucia) remains ambivalent toward the trappings of fame. One aspect of stardom that Blades finds particularly loathsome is the notion that celebrities are a privileged breed, an elite group that must insulate themselves from the rabble. Instead, the four-time Grammy nominee has tried to remain as accessible to his public as possible. Until just a few years ago, he had his home phone number printed on the back of his album covers. He abandoned the practice when his increasingly itinerant schedule made it impossible...
...lyrics were equally innovative. Instead of the familiar themes of love and loss, he wrote vividly poetic images, inspired by the free-flowing narratives found in the works of Latin writers like Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Carlos Fuentes. "Most Latin songs are about the guy who betrayed his best friend, or the women who left him, or saying let's party," explains Blades, who opted instead to paint an expressionist canvas that included blessed sinners and murdered priests, the cry of political revolt and the stifled silence between lovers. In Ojos de Perro Azul (Eyes of a Blue Dog), from...