Word: fills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back Bay's attractiveness was no accident-it was carefully planned even before the creation of the land Back Bay occupies. As the Museum's two introductory slide shows explain, the Back Bay, like 60 per cent of downtown Boston, was built on fill. Beginning in 1857, railroad cars brought gravel from Needham every hour, day and night. After more than 30 years the entire area from the Boston Public Garden past Massachusetts Avenue to Charlesgate and south as far as Huntington and Columbus Avenues had been filled to a depth of twenty feet...
...incorrectly, but I have been right some of the time, and who can blame me for predicting Harvard over Brown? Even the four sports writers for the Brown Daily Herald picked the Cantabs, as they call John Yovicsin's boys. And as long as we've got space to fill, I might as well make four more guesses this week...
...than a minute left. We were only 14 points behind, and Frank left! He didn't go to the dressing room, and he didn't seek out a telephone booth or storage room, he just left. But if this is Frank Champi's attitude, maybe a new star will fill the void this year, like Joe Roda or Dave Smith. Or Ralph Cahaly. Lots of Mickey Mouse from the band today, but the Crimson will be the winner...
...main problem with this theory is that human behavior is rarely so simple that it can be understood in terms of a single motivation like risk taking. Blaine made no mention of the other functions drugs can fill-including the fact that taking drugs can be enjoyable. It's also hard to figure out how he came up with "fast driving" as an integral part of today's youth culture, and he must realize that most of the risk has been taken out of "irresponsible sexual behavior...
...process of events. What unifies his works in the thirties is not the working-out of themes in a film so much as the constant detail-in-motion of social and personal life. All actions tend to equal importance as Renoir gives each character minor mannerisms and gestures to fill each moment. A surface of action gives his films a continuity of realistic events...