Word: filler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last week and pressed to identify the author of this gratuitous swill, a spokesperson said, "No one wrote it." It seems that it was a slow summer in the Feedback mailroom, and so the Big Codfish and Ms. Knish were instructed to come up with a page of meaningful filler for the upcoming Registration Issue...
...Agassiz suffers from the inevitable comparison with Comden and Green. The two professionals knew how to put songs and patter together in a continuum; they had the ability to make the most rehearsed gesture appear spontaneous. But the spoken interludes in An Evening of Bernstein are only too obviously filler between songs. The audience--and probably the cast as well-will wish them over soon. Flynn and Smith are especially poor actors; apparently unaware of the meaning of their speeches, they flap their hands, grin fixedly, and fail to enunciate. Ives is saved only by the humor in his lines...
State outscored Radcliffe 17-4 in an eight-minute period with clutch buckets by Carol Filler and Maryanne Sowell which narrowed the score...
...night with a craving to list "15 renowned redheads" (e.g., Thomas Jefferson, Lucille Ball) or the "nine breeds of dog that bite the most" (among them: German shepherd, chowchow, poodle) or the site of the annual watermelon seed-spitting contest (Paul's Valley, Okla.). Those addicted to the filler material at the bottom of newspaper columns will find an attic's worth of yellowing snippets ("If you had spent $1,000 a day every day since Christ was born, you would not have spent $1 billion...
...National Revenue Jack Cullen, who would be in charge of enforcing the law, announced that "substantially" different editorial content meant at least 80% different. Both publishers insist that figure is unattainable. Says Stephen S. LaRue, president of TIME Canada Ltd.: "We'd be wallpapering the magazine with filler, and it would no longer be a global newsmagazine of quality...