Word: fill
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...biggest tribute to Prentke's salesmanship abilities is that, in a year when the freshman heavies can barely fill two boats, Prentke has four enthusiastic boat loads of people...
...expectations. Just as the modal fabric of Renaissance music is foreign to the twentieth century ear, the context of modern music--a permanent background of muzak in supermarkets, television soundtracks and the stereo next door--bears no resemblance to the silence that Byrd and Gesualdo labored to fill. There are no grand gestures in this music, nothing simple for the listener or the performer to grab onto. If I Dilettanti Nuovi failed to provide the kind of pure sustained sound that can make the Byrd Mass compelling, their performance revealed a welcome insight into this work's majesty and depth...
...Last Request. To the very end, the President sought to postpone the day of reckoning. For more than a month after the committee asked for the tapes on Feb. 25, White House aides portrayed the request as unduly broad, a fishing expedition that called for enough material to fill a U-Haul trailer. Not until several days before the committee's formal subpoena of the recordings on April 11 did Nixon order aides to locate and transcribe the tapes. Last week, at Presidential Counsel James St. Clair's request, the committee extended its deadline by five days. "Having...
...shoot from outside or, more often, pass the ball to a teammate. Though Havlicek has uncanny aim with his passes and shots, his style is anything but flashy. "He takes charge in a quiet, unobtrusive way," says Auerbach. "I didn't think he'd be able to fill Russell's shoes when the big man left, but of course he has." Says Havlicek: "The Celtics have always had an older person to try to pass along some of the team philosophy. I've learned to fill that role to a certain extent...
...topped roads and big new cars and cops and robber chases. It is a world which Bonnie and Clyde made famous, and Thieves often seems to lean too heavily on that earlier film, in scenes like the final, rather improbable shoot out at a motor court when the police fill the small frame cottage where the hero is holed up with about two or three minutes worth of solid lead. There is rather gratuitous use of slow motion here too, although Altman denies seeing any similarity to Arthur Penn's film, and says that he only shot what...