Word: fillers
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...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...
...Congressional Record, high school compositions and sociological journals. Morrow also kept a notebook - which swelled to 60 pages - of tortured usages found in everyday reading, television watching and conversation. In some ways, it was a chastening exercise. Morrow found that he frequently sinned, most often in using careless conversational "filler" phrases like "you know" and "well, ah." Colleagues who have chatted with him recently say that his speaking style is, ah, much improved...
...crucifix, the flying green vomit--behind curtain number three, and it had to be seen to be believed. Everything else was just garbage--the eleven bad songs to fill out the hit single album. Jaws was more refreshing than. The Exorcist partly because it didn't pretend that the filler was anything else but a vehicle for the real stuff...
...other clues: the cover was the annual portrait of Eustace Tilley, The New Yorker's elegant, top-hatted, curly-locked, nose-in-the-air, monacieclutching mascot. That told readers the magazine was celebrating some anniversary. And on page 134 there was the best clue of all, a four-line filler reeking of esoterica and tradition. It read...