Word: blah
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Deposited on a table near the theater'sentrance was a fake syllabus, listing units suchas "Casablanca, Citizen Kane, TheGodfather, Blah, Blah, Blah" and "The CannesFilm Festival "Do you know, do you know, do youknow, do you know the answer...
...network executives, that blah feeling has become a recurring stomachache. Every summer the three-network share of the TV audience shrinks further, as viewers flee to other options on cable. (This year combined ratings for the Big Three since mid-April are down 4% compared with last year. For the week ending July 7, the three-network share dropped to its lowest level in history.) Network programmers periodically make noises about fighting back and introducing more fresh fare during the hot months. From time to time they do. But the financial realities -- airing repeats is necessary to help amortize programming...
...Dean Moses wasn't happy that I interrupted him at tea," Starr continues," and his argument, I think, was of college as a learning experience, and students should learn these things, and blah blah blah...
...copies) is large for a children's book, which is what Haroun and the Sea of Stories at first appears to be. But hold on. The tale seems eerily parallel to Rushdie's predicament. There is a storyteller named Rashid Khalifa, also known as the Shah of Blah, who loses the gift of the gab and can no longer entertain. What's worse, his condition is mysteriously linked to a fanatic cult that wants to wipe out not only made-up tales but also human speech. Children may take all this as make- believe, but adult readers are free...