Word: fill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stamping of feet as friends come in from the cold. Much later, out of the silent indoor darkness, the unmistakable soft tinkle and pop when an ornament falls off the tree. Above all, there is the joyous sound of people singing. Across the nation this week, hymns and carols fill the air with promise, renewing the covenants of peace and fellowship once more...
Reagan still has five Cabinet posts to fill. One prospective appointment provoking a ruckus is that of James Watt as Secretary of the Interior. A Denver attorney, Watt is leading a fight to open up more federal wilderness land to mining and oil drilling in Colorado and Wyoming. Reagan said in Watt's defense last week: "I think he's an environmentalist himself, as I think I am. He is fighting environmental extremists...
...well, a number of loose ends left flapping about. Guy Hamilton's direction is languid, and, perhaps because of budgetary reasons, both the backgrounds of scenes and the sound track have an odd emptiness about them, a deadness that suggests there was not enough money to fill them up with suitably enlivening bustle and buzz...
Already the press is getting used to the way the President-elect-at least before taking office-stays in seclusion, says nothing or prudently contents himself with brief, noncommittal, cameo appearances. In his silence, others, perhaps hoping to speak for him or eager to influence him, fill the gap. The sounds to be heard all over Washington are of trial balloons collapsing and the steady drizzle of leaks...
Existence today often means escaping from the latest Oscar award acceptance speech only to be trapped within earshot of a disc jockey who considers it a felony to fall silent for a second. Some 5,000 radio and TV talk shows fill the air with an oceanic surf of gabble, a big fraction of it as disposable as a weather-caster's strained charm. It is easy to snap off and tune out, but it is not so simple to elude real-life blather. Try to get away from it all, and soon a stage-struck airline captain will...