Word: fillers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dreamed up by Executive Producer Lewis Freedman, the series will describe bits of American history, data and errata, the momentous and the obscure. The 732 minutes-of the newspaper filler "on this day 200 years ago" variety -will be narrated, says the network, by "everyone from movie stars to Supreme Court Justices." Sample Minutes: Actor Barry Sullivan recounting the career of Tom Paine, Charlton Heston describing George Washington's reaction to the Boston Tea Party, Richard Crenna explaining the impact of the fuel crisis in Boston in the year 1774, and Jean Stapleton revealing Martha Washington's secret...
...change noxious exhaust fumes to harmless gases. The lead in ordinary gasoline fouls the converters. Indeed, as little as two tanks of leaded gas will "poison" a converter; to replace it could cost the motorist up to $150. So automakers will equip their 1975 models with smaller-than-usual filler pipes leading into the gas tanks. Conventional gasoline nozzles will not fit into them; only special, smaller nozzles used to dispense unleaded gas will go inside...
...rest of the movie. During the narrative they replayed the best action bits for each other to make sure they'd got it, and fidgeted. And the investors are lucky that nobody studies the rest of the movie. Because there is nothing to it--it is all mindless filler, padding to launch the action. The movie's high is in the special effects that ran up the movie's budget from 4 to 10 million dollars as Friedkin kept mashing up more vomit effects into his vomit movie. He must have gotten carried away, which is lucky for the investors...
...brain is composed of two kinds of cells: neurons, or nerve cells, of which there are some 100 billion, and glia, which outnumber the neurons by a ratio of 10 to 1. Neurons, which are the functional units of the brain (glia, scientists believe, are largely "filler"), are connected to each other by means of long filaments, or dendrites, and form the body's nerve network. These cells receive sensory impulses, process the myriad bits of information pouring into the brain each moment, and transmit the brain's messages out to the various parts of the body, causing...
...could never be left playing in the background like a string of Handel concerti grossi or even Bach trio sonatas. It demands closer attention. But the fruits of attention are often sparse (in contrast to the Bach trios!). Beautiful themes are exposed, but then lapse into less-than-profound filler. Huge crescendi too often come from and lead to nowhere. Basically, Victorian music could not cope with the olympian symphonic medium. Although the time of the E-minor's composition, 1866, antedates Brahms and Dvorak, the Sullivan is valuable to us more as a well-crafted curiosity with touches...