Word: instead
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1990
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...police have stood by and watched while the prince's aides physically assaulted Crimson reporters who were attempting to photograph them in a public place, according to the two reporters involved. On another occasion, they ignored a threat made to a reporter's life--again, according to the reporter. Instead of responding to the situation, our reporter said the officers found it more important to escort the Saudi Arabian who made the threat to his limousine...
...Bargain. On the long drive from Wisconsin to Arizona, where he has been told a better life beckons, Wade begins to realize that his parents have not only pulled up stakes but are racing to leave each other as well. The gun that introduces The Steward never goes off. Instead the Midwestern farm boy called upon to protect his grandparents, mother and brother from a lunatic reported to be in the area encounters nothing but a heightened awareness of the tedium of family routines...
...element in this feral, fertile inversion of It's a Wonderful Life. Each shot was crafted with the off-center elegance and pristine passion of a modernist painter. But with its mix of battered beauties and severed ears, Blue Velvet might have been his drop-dead letter to Hollywood. Instead, it made the maverick bankable. His next big project would find takers on network...
...Instead, burdened with memories of dead horses on roadsides and German planes strafing the refugees, the teenager was deported to Siberia. It was there, during three years of forced labor, he was struck by the snow blindness that later forced him to wear his famed tinted glasses. Only in 1944 could Jaruzelski return to Poland, and only then as a recruit in a Polish army put together by Stalin...
Jaruzelski seems to view himself as someone shaped by history, a proud vision borne out by one of his last acts in office. Instead of simply stepping down, he asked parliament last week to introduce a constitutional amendment shortening his six-year term of office. This way he can leave not as the leader who resigned under pressure but as the President whose term was reduced by an act of parliament...