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...puts Playwright Foote in much the same plight as his old Mrs. Watts. In a sense, he is running away from his material-and to as ghostly a destination. What begins as sharp domestic drama drifts into the sort of mild fantasy that seems, at its worst, mere filler. Once his old lady runs away, Playwright Foote can do nothing more than improvise, temporize, insert those small episodes in bus stations and buses that pay off as scenes but bankrupt the play as a whole. The play, furthermore, misses real poignancy from going too plainly in search of it; something...
Kenneth Fairman, director of athletics at Princeton, laid the blame for the popular misunderstanding of the book's charge squarely on the Associated Press. He called the AP dispatch "middle of the week space filler...
...grappling in the lobby, Doug yanked at the top tippler, accidentally sent him hurtling through the air like Superman. In local weight-lifting contests, Doug sometimes claimed to have broken a world record; most spectators figured he was bragging. Vancouver newspapers buried Doug's exploits as sports-page filler stuff. Sometimes, in news famines, the papers filled space with "body beautiful" pictures of Doug, who posed in such a way as to hide his thin right...
...didn't make any money makes no difference. I reported every dime I made to the Internal Revenue Bureau ... If someone wanted so many bushels of No. 2 wheat shipped out, it was my job to meet the minimum specifications and no more. I used Canadian wheat as filler [and] the Houston Merchants' Exchange checked that wheat every two weeks - checked it and approved it." Demanded Fellrath:"Is it my fault if they approved something they shouldn't have?" This week, the Senate Agriculture Committee was trying to subpoena the records of Transit Grain...
...golden bronze; the other is a salute to Ireland's famed poet, William Butler Yeats slit-eyed chin thrust inquisitively forward. Now John is happily working on a third, head of his daughter Vivien, which is still in the shape where the tobacco tins he thriftily uses as filler are not yet covered over...