Word: filler
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...result, there’s a lot of boring filler. We hear again and again that work sucks, school is boring, and Reagan was a fascist. It’s actually kind of like listening to a Hardcore song, except the music is gone and the words are stammered rather than yelled...
...work she does. Midway through the morning, Smith has already cut her lady-bug dress in half to make a shirt and skirt. She sews the cotton filler into the hem of the skirt and folds the fabric over, causing it to flare out sharply. Using her thick grey thread, she bunches up the material to create a curtain-like, drappage look...
...Chicks have affection for their early work, and songs like There's Your Trouble and Goodbye Earl will endure, but Maines describes most of it as "amateurish." They didn't write their hits, and the songs they did write were mostly filler. "I never wrote anything from my point of view," Maines says. "Even if it was something that happened to me, I would write it like it was a character and I was telling someone else's story ... That's not very brave...
...with an imaginary friend. While it often grasps at the sublime, “The Life Pursuit” falls short of greatness. It could have been a perfectly crafted EP—of which this band has already made several—had the disc’s filler been culled. While on balance the good outweighs the bad, it remains hard to sit through the clunkers, such as “To Be Myself Completely,” whose vague lyrics and generic melody drag down the last third of the album. This is most likely because it?...
...statistics about President Bush [Dec. 19], was a real dud. I have no problem with puzzling over the strange mind of W. or with Time's taking up a full page to develop a keen, witty perspective on some topical issue, but Marx's piece was, at best, filler. It seemed like one of those papers I wrote on the school bus on the way to class despite having had two weeks to get it done. Tom Wright Burke, Virginia, U.S. Ramallah's Renaissance Re Your article " Palestine's Oasis Of Artistic Freedom," about the cultural revival in the West...