Word: instead
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Received Ideas seems to have tapped a main vein. Holzer is the modern version -- rewired, subsidized, eagerly collected, but still recognizable -- of those American maidens who, a century ago, passed their hours stitching improving texts on samplers: THOU GOD SEEST ME, ABC, XYZ. The main differences are that instead of using biblical texts, Holzer writes her own, and that instead of using needle and thread, she inscribes them in LEDs and marble. Once Old Nick made work for idle hands; today the art market does...
...movie's hero is Grimm (Bill Murray), a city planner who wants nothing more than to escape the city once and for all. Inexplicably, instead of buying a place in Connecticut, he opts for planning a million-dollar bank robbery that will allow him and his girlfriend Phyllis (Geena Davis) and best friend Loomis (Randy Quaid) to spend the rest of their lives on a South Pacific island...
...producers never make full use of the potential that the movie's setting offers. Although Quick Change--unlike many others of its genre--actually was filmed in Manhattan instead of Pasadena, many scenes have the familiar look of New-York-as-seen-by-people-from...
...progress is made during the next few years in fighting skin cancer, the best therapy will remain prevention, especially in childhood and the teens, when most of the damage is done. To Americans long indoctrinated with the notion that a tan look is a healthy look, this means that instead of worshiping the sun, they had better begin respecting...
...work harder but smarter, more effectively -- or we have to compete on the basis of wages. The choice is between high skills and low wages. We seem to be continuing to compete on the basis of wages, which means that the effort will constantly be to pull wages down instead of building skills up. We are making the wrong choice...