Word: fillings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Peck, all dignity, stalks senselessly through the film like a man in someone else's nightmare. The dreamer is Film Maker Carl Foreman, whose shoddy special effects and flaccid production soon turn Mackennas Gold into solid dross. To fill up the film, he has José Feliciano twanging a narrative ballad and Quincy Jones's thunderously atmospheric music throughout. The result sounds like pebbles clattering down the Grand Canyon...
When a company has one job opening, says Lloyd Luoma, a Lockheed employment supervisor, "a little advertising and luck will fill it. But with a hundred openings at once, you have a problem." Many U.S. employers have such headaches, and are racking their corporate brains to find ways of meeting the increasingly severe shortage of skilled workers...
...Bonus. The surfeit of shortages is reflected in the rising fees charged by employment agencies and training schools. Some agencies collect as much as $2,400 to fill a $15,000 job. Rather than pay such bounties, Loral Corp., a Scarsdale, N.Y., electronics firm, offers a color television set to any employee recommending an engineer who remains with the company for at least three months. Marcor, Inc., formed by the merger of Montgomery Ward and Container Corp. of America, awards $100 merchandise credits to employees who help recruit new data processors and secretaries...
...cultural chic, explained the Sontag phenomenon this way: When Mary McCarthy arrived at "the more dignified status of Grande Dame," she left a vacancy as "Dark Lady of American Letters." With a timing she herself would be the first to appreciate, Miss Sontag appeared in the early 1960s to fill it, her belle-dame-sans-merci credentials already well in hand...
...Fill the syringe, don't spill, hot glutin, like sperm thinned out, you're a better man, the ultimate power of the penis is yours, life-giving death, the shock of mortality, the paralytic realization of death. There are too many bruises on your arm, so probe a little, who cares anymore? It'll only hurt for a second. Push -- watchit goddamit your fingers are so wet it's slipping shit!--the bubbles are out. One last review before...