Word: instead
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...refused to use his given name to protest the terms of his recording contract. Last week, however, the singer who has simply been referred to as The Artist announced that his contract has expired and his name has been emancipated. "I will now go back to using my name instead of the symbol I adopted to free myself from all undesirable relationships," he said at a press conference. Proving that he bristles at all forms of bondage, Prince also elucidated the nature of his annulled marriage to the woman simply referred to as Mayte: "She does her thing...
...Calista Flockhart, the festival no longer pays much notice to big-budget Hollywood films, and the feeling is mutual. Gladiator is not here, nor Mission: Impossible 2. Gilles Jacob, the Cannes program director, who will step down after the current festival, has not been to Hollywood in five years. Instead, he woos the reigning masters of Europe and Asia, as well as America's indie auteurs. Jacob wants the universe of movie people in Cannes to find artistic life, and perhaps even commercial vitality, beyond Hollywood...
...find popular fascination with phone games hard to imagine, you're not alone. Peter Skarzynski, vice president of sales and marketing for Samsung's wireless division, dismisses them as "a gimmick" and plans to focus instead on putting MP3 players, TVs and digital cameras into his phones. "That's what I call true entertainment," he says...
...Little Ice Age's] long chill, and the Vikings never adapted the Inuit's more effective strategies for the cold." If the Norse were that backward, how did they survive for even one generation in their remote new land? Greenland represented a daunting challenge even in its warmest periods. Instead, the Norse managed well for about a half-millennium, maintaining their own culture while adapting to changing fortunes. The arbitrary date, A.D. 1450, given for when the colony ended merely closes doors that need to stay open until we know more. KIRSTEN A. SEAVER Palo Alto, Calif...
...tidy stretch of road for Bette Midler to drive on. They just shouldn't be able, morally or tax-wise, to call it charity. If you need to donate to education, give to a scholarship fund. But it's too easy to give money to pretty things instead of the leprous maniac down the street who's always singing The Thong Song. I don't live in a great neighborhood...