Word: fill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Picture yourself in a place that's comfortable, very relaxing, perhaps on a beach with a golden sun," a hypnotic voice drones. "The temperature is comfortable and you're feeling good, strong, relaxed, at peace with yourself and the world. Now breathe in deeply and allow the oxygen to fill your lungs and as you exhale, lot any pressure you feel be released...
...Administration would need congressional approval to disband the panel, but the President could weaken the council further by failing to appoint replacements. Said Reagan in an interview published in Human Events, a conservative weekly: "I'm considering whether or not I even want to fill [the chairmanship]." From a public relations standpoint, while abolishing the CEA would make economic decisions appear smoother, it might create the impression that the Administration is trying to get rid of anyone who does not agree with it. Particularly if the economy runs into trouble in the next four years, the President will need...
...fill up half an hour on a midday Sunday talk show. These programs are both opportunity and trap to a politician who feels the need to get public exposure. The shows get relatively low ratings, but the ratings would be even lower if the programs were only sober discussion of the issues; viewers hope that Roger Mudd, George Will or Sam Donaldson can draw blood. Secretary of State George Shultz can be droningly evasive and still be asked back; lesser fry do not dare. (Andrei Gromyko doesn't have to face the problem at all.) No American politician could...
...writers whose distinctive voices fill the pages of Ruas' book with shoptalk and gossip have learned to work against this unpromising backdrop. From Eudora Welty, 75, to Scott Spencer, the 39-year-old author of Endless Love, these eloquent veterans also know how to plug along through praise, criticism and indifference. Some careers grow slowly, like redwoods. Each Welty story added a ring to her reputation until today she is treated with the reverence accorded endangered species. Joseph Heller works hard just to keep the standing won nearly 25 years ago with Catch-22. William Burroughs, whose satiric fantasies...
...unlikely that a straight production of "Endgame" could fill a theater and keep its attention the way Akalaitis and Stein have managed to do. Akalaitis, who collaborated on this year's Talking Heads concert film, went so far as to say she would have refused to take on "Endgame" had she been restricted to a strict interpretation of the text...