Word: filler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shoe-on-the-other-foot tales. Perhaps dog-bites-dog is a better label. Like many Washington-based agents for large news organizations, I am mentioned in other publications now and then. Our work is parsed by press critics; we get into contretemps with the powerful; we serve as filler for the growing number of gossip columns. All this is, in principle, legitimate. Those who groan reflexively when needled or critiqued simply confirm the aphorism about journalistic skins being thinner than the average American adult's. What stokes my personal I.L. is the frequency of error in these items...
This is the kind of timidity that has caused the council to become little more than a resume-filler for its members. A faulty election procedure played out year after year is the cause of much of the council's weakness...
Carmela Cammarata's stained brown fingers have a life of their own. Nimbly stretching Honduran corojo tobacco leaves with moistened fingertips, she strips the stems with a flat, semicircular blade. Then she expertly rolls the golden leaves around bunched-up filler into fragrant cylinders that could make a cigar lover cry. Rolling cigars comes as naturally and rhythmically to her as drumming fingers on a kitchen table. "I shouldn't be working anymore," says Cammarata, who has been making cigars for 65 of her 80 years. "But I love to make cigars. In my day it was tobacco, tobacco, tobacco...
Much cable programming, to be sure, is still a morass of second-rate reruns, cheesy home-shopping shows and other filler fare. But original programming -- often more adventurous than that of the three networks -- is occupying a growing portion of the cable schedule. Pay services like HBO and Showtime have for years produced made-for-cable movies, comedy concerts and other original fare. Now basic cable services are getting into the act as well. The USA Network, once filled largely with creaky reruns, has increased the number of fresh shows dramatically. Lifetime, with a diet of talk and service shows...
...Swett, H, def. Bebe Blennerman, B. 15-5, 15-7, 15-9; 6th: Sarah Bayliss, H, def. Cathy Hart, B. 15-7, 15-5, 15-2; 7th: Kathryn Moffet, H, def. Mildred Godburt. B, 15-7, 15-5, 15-8; 8th: Sarah Nickerson, H, def. Julie Filler, B, 15-1, 15-0, 15-11; 9th: Kristin Walter, H, def. Lynn Warner...