He appeared onstage in a shimmering turquoise suit, and for the next two hours the theater was full of moans and groans: he sings in a tender, aching voice that evokes Roy Orbison, and he fills the time between songs with a jokey monologue that never stops.
Now that the Miami Heat's winning streak has fizzled to an unsatisfying end, we can all go back to contemplating the N.C.A.A. tournaments' rounds of 16 or contemplating an imminent baseball season or watching "Iron Chef" reruns or whatever else usually fills the time between spring supposedly starting and when it really starts.
But Times photographers managed through the years to capture those many moments, tumultuous or timelessly calm, that filled the time between white carnation blankets.
"It's so lyrical, and you have to fill the time between pitches, so it lends itself to storytelling and ruminating".
Chinese fans write their own stories about the modern version of author Arthur Conan Doyle's prickly, Victorian detective and his sidekick, Dr Watson, to fill the time between the brief, three-episode seasons.
Transparently filling the time between the memorial services and the evening events, including the president's speech, the afternoon coverage tried to create a national conversation, but largely failed.
To fill the time between fund-raising events, and to give the campaign press something to report on, the candidates are already giving fall-style campaign speeches and criticizing each other.
You can't just add some occasionally funny lines, rooted in neither character nor place, to fill the time between the opening and closing titles and hope for the best.
Rayo never had much money anyway – when they were last in the First Division one player memorably remarked that he filled the time between a double training session with "lunch at McDonalds and a kip in the back of a truck".
It forces attention onto how the crossbench responds to the threat, rather than the Coalition's policy plans still in formulation, filling the time between now and the 3 May budget with a high-stakes Senate standoff and a discussion on the Coalition's preferred turf and about things Labor would prefer not to talk about.
Yet he will often keep a crowd waiting; he is so frequently late (and often speaks for just 20 minutes once he gets there) that it is not unusual to see his introducers shuffle to fill the time between the introduction and the appearance of the candidate.
