Word: filler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...know that The Tiger Makes Out is adapted from a one-act play by Schisgal called The Tiger, it's easy to understand why the film seems a succession of high points surrounded by a lot of filler. Those high points are good, though. They are touching in their way, but salty, not schmaltzy...
...with all news are all too detectable in the teething troubles of New York's WCBS, which began competing with the city's profitable and professional all-news pioneer WINS last month. The hard news was no problem-CBS has been reporting it for years. But the filler-sports for women only, psychologists answering letters from worried mothers, non-interviews with non-persons-showed signs of strain. The station developed a serious case of call letteritis ("And now, CBS news presents the CBS weather report"), mentioning CBS or WCBS about 35 times an hour. It also suffers from...
...N.R.T. appeared on Broadway with dramatic choices that were varied in content yet reflected the standard repertory mentality: combine one old classic (Molière's The Imaginary Invalid) with one serious American play (O'Neill's A Touch of the Poet) and sandwich in a filler of froth (Noel Coward's Tonight...
...work of Gilbert and Sullivan is opera as everyone would have it -- uproarious dialogue peppered with concise musical numbers and plagued by a minimum of operatic filler. Sullivan's melodies are captivating in their exquisite sentimentality and catchy enough for everyone to sing along...
Born. To Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, 58, Governor of New York, and Margaretta Filler Murphy Rockefeller, 40: their second son (his seventh child, her sixth); in Manhattan. Name: Mark Filler...