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Word: filled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Barnet followed his own rules to the letter. He arrived early every morning -not to get any work done, but to peruse the desks of everyone else in the office, thus keeping one step ahead of his superiors. He would gleefully fill me in on his findings the moment I arrived, the first wave in a day-long deluge of chatter that made it impossible for either of us to get any work done. My life became a mind-numbing swamp of monologues about who got what promotion, why it was undeserved, which employees hated each other and why. "That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Making of A Bureaucrat | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...pretty easily. While you're there stop in at one of the bakeries for some almond cookies, moon cakes or honey sticks. Chinatown is a fun place to explore, and Shanghai a fun place to start. As the Taoist philosopher Chuang Tze once said, "Empty your head and fill your belly...

Author: By Nancy A. Tentindo, | Title: A Short Leap Forward | 3/1/1979 | See Source »

Ostensibly, Agatha is a fiction that attempts to fill in the lacunae in the historical record of one of this century's least pressing but most fascinating enigmas: that ten-day period in 1926 when Agatha Christie, that shy and eminently respectable mystery writer, seemed to disappear off the face of the earth, becoming the object of a very noisy hue and cry in England before she was found, volunteering (as she never did) no explanation for the only untoward incident in her otherwise gray tweed life. Actually, the true subjects of this movie, based on a story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Restoration | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

Along the way to Constantinople they find that Burton deBusch (James Hanes) is the mastermind behind SPAM's plot to fill the snuff boxes of the British with opium and blow away their entire navy. In the end, thanks to the efforts of O'Genick's fellow travelers, Spasm the Butler (Rich O'Leary) and Ella Mental (Doug Fitch), the scheme is thwarted. (Leavitt and Peirce's sales have dropped sharply since the show opened...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: The Smell of the Crowd | 2/24/1979 | See Source »

...these devices are represented in the New Personal Animation. For example, in Part II, pixillation, or accelerated live-action footage, constitutes Los Ojos, by Gary Beydler, and Stephen Weatherkill's The Walker employs the mysteries of the optical printer, too multifarious for this writer to relate, to fill the walker's silhouettes with different background and patterns than his rightful landscape...

Author: By Jean A. Riesman, | Title: As Kingfishers Catch Fire, Dragonflies Draw Flame | 2/22/1979 | See Source »

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