Word: fill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...event. I step carefully over the legs of lounging actors toward the table. A friendly but frazzled HRDC official explains the procedure to me. I am to sign up to audition for as many plays as I like. For each one, I will be given an audition form to fill out and a reading to prepare. When my turn comes, a "runner" will escort me and perhaps one or two others to another room to read the part in front of the director and the producer...
...audition from is daunting, especially since for each question that asks if I have any experience or special skills or talents, I am forced to fill the vast white space that follows with a single...
...station, the attendant, who sits behind bulletproof glass, can do nothing to help a novice learn the new greasy, smelly routine of pumping his own gas. Memories flood back of the typical Tokyo station, where a horde of neat, well-mannered and expert attendants take charge of the car, fill it up, wash it and check the tires. Then they doff their hats, shout their thanks and stop traffic so the customer can drive away...
...chided a supermarket clerk for failing to say thank you, she snapped, "It's printed on your receipt!" The film Back to the Future cracked up its audiences with a scene in which Michael J. Fox's character, who has traveled back in time, walks past a 1950s-era filling station and is flabbergasted to see four cheery attendants in neatly pressed coveralls. Like a pit crew at the Indianapolis 500, they dash up to a car and proceed to fill the gas tank, check the oil, clean the windows and polish the chrome...
Beds at the shelters are scarce, and fill up first with the old, the very young, and women. Young men have little hope of getting a bed, and some have even come to scorn the shelters. Says Michael Brown, 24: "It stinks to high heaven in those places. They're just packed with people and when the lights go out, it's everybody for themselves." Michael, a short, self-described con man, has been living on the streets three years, ever since holding up a convenience store in Little Rock. He fled, fearing capture, but now misses the two young...