Word: fill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...luring more than 2,200 to a workshop, a discussion of her techniques, which she illustrated with a videotape. Satir is a peppy speaker with murky ideas, who often opens a session by asking members of the audience to embrace those next to them. Said one colleague: "She can fill any auditorium in the country, but she has great difficulty conceptualizing...
...what she left out: factual (as opposed to spiritual) biography of a conventional kind, drawn from Thurman's book, a study of Finch Hatton's life and Dinesen's letters, which are altogether more open than her book. Where the documents fail him, Screenwriter Luedtke improvises plausible fictions to fill the dramatic gaps. In the process he provides Director Pollack and his actors with still other elements that Dinesen ignored, a coherent overall story line and well-shaped scenes that are mostly playable in crisply minimal dialogue...
Spielberg and flunky Chris Columbus--who also wrote Gremlins and Goonies (see accompanying story)--have not expanded the modest vision of past Holmes films and the original Doyle stories to fill the epic scope required for Spielberg mega-effects. They have stomped all over the original, creating not a Holmes aided by millions in props and special effects, but a Holmes pulverized by orgasmic Spielbergisms that make anything the hero does seem thoroughly boring...
Libraries reserving space in the HDI include Baker, Langdell, and the University Archives. MIT also plans to store materials in the building. Silverman says that about half of the space had been reserved, with the rest expected to fill up by next year...
...tenure process. Neither side deserves all the blame for what at times has been bitter fighting, but the result of their unrestrained battle has been unfortunate. The Law School has been unable to tenure faculty from other schools since 1981 and has had routinely to promote junior faculty to fill teaching positions. With several liberal junior faculty members coming up for tenure this spring, many of the moderates and conservatives fear a leftist coup which might permanently divide the faculty. The result could be an unfortunate migration of some of Harvard's most prized legal experts...