Word: filled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...friends have already gone, so house life wasn't a big draw," said Ryoo, a concentrator in anthropology and the history of art. "I had my fill of the House experience...
...council in half. There is no need to have the current 90 council-member system. It is not uncommon to have candidates run in uncontested district races. Furthermore, there is no need to fill the council ranks with members who do not care about their constituents and skip important meetings, like those who considered council reform measures last year...
...watch it work as I fill up with gas," I said...
Unfortunately, she represents that female so explicitly that the show seems hollow and calculated even by TV standards. Peter Roth, head of Fox Entertainment, says he asked Kelley to create a series with a strong female lead to fill the time slot after Melrose Place, which is popular among young women. In other words, the demographics came first, and the provenance shows. You feel as if Kelley gathered a list of themes from focus groups and then set about addressing them methodically and baldly. In one of the many declarations the show makes about its heroine--in case anyone missed...
When the old god Jehovah, or Yahweh, ceased to frighten most people, new prophets arose. People listened to preachings about capitalism, democracy, humanism, socialism and communism. When even these failed to fill the human soul, the unexplored exotic religions of the East, such as Buddhism [RELIGION, Oct. 13], beckoned. But here in the West, those religions are artificially implanted in a society that is spiritually lost. The followers are ready to be led like sheep into any corner of the religious corral--be it to mass suicide, sexual excess or even murder. Eastern religions are Eastern in their mentality...