Word: filler
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...thought about rock albums has often come across this criticism: “This would be so much better as an EP.” Many musicians have a habit of building LPs around a couple of good songs and devoting the rest of the space to uninspired filler tracks. They seem to prefer making long, mediocre records when they could create succinct, exciting ones. So when a band recording an EP decides to extend it to an LP, it’s usually for the worse—unless, it seems, that band is the Dirtbombs. Originally conceived...
...music. The instrumentation, which includes a touch of strings here and there, helps this euphoric feeling along. In “Beautiful Beat” we see an example of repetition used well, a rarity on this album. Then “Lucky” moves on to the filler tracks. Subsequent songs channel Simon and Garfunkel (“Here Goes Something”) or try to mix things up with a 6/4 time signature (“Weightless”), but they end up just being tiring. “Are You Lightning,” the next...
FILL IN THE BLANKS If any pigmentation has been lost in the rip, the gaps are covered with putty or another filler and then coated with non-oil-based paint--such as watercolor--which can be easily removed if it begins to discolor.ET VOILA! Hensick doubts that the finished repairs will be visible to casual observers: "With someone like Monet, there are so many different colors and so much texture that it's easy to camouflage any fixes in the painting itself." ET VIOLA! Hensick doubts that the finished repairs will be visible to casual observers: "With someone like Monet...
...adaptation the publishers are banking on. Even without such distracting cardboard characters, the book would be weighed down by Ignatius’ inane language and the dialogue. His wordy and cringe-worthy sentences are burdened by odd uses of colloquialisms, and his dialogue seems to be little more than filler. Still, even with a disappointing plot, terrible characters, and poor language, Ignatius’ book could have retained some value by delivering insight into the Arab world, into the world of the CIA, or into the Iraq War. And yet, inconceivable as it is, Ignatius neglects to weigh...
It’s certainly fitting that the proposed new curriculum describes its categories in terms of the meaningless jibber-jabber that can easily turn a section into purgatory. “Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding” sounds like the kind of filler one uses to impress a typically disinterested teaching fellow (TF) when one hasn’t done any of the assigned reading. Courses in this category will leave students able to analyze “primary texts and/or works of art…in the context of a theoretical framework.” This...