Word: fluff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...annual budget of more than $21 million, E.T. maintains a staff of 110 in Los Angeles, plus a bureau of 15 in New York City and reporters in Nashville, Atlanta, Miami and London. E.T. staffers and executives are sensitive about charges that the show is all puff and fluff, a p.r. agent's dream. "We're not curing cancer," says Co-Anchor Hendren. "We want to have fun with it." John Goldhammer, senior vice president at Paramount agrees: "We're not out there to nail people." And except for an occasional sitting duck like Pia Zadora, they...
...club not only admits that it has no purpose, but bases its existence on that very fact. Maya Williams '84 established the Fluff Club "for people who just want to stuff their resumes." The only requirement for admission in the Fluff Club is to think of a high-sounding title for yourself; Williams--the Grand Poobah of the Fluff Club--must approve the titles. Williams admits that it "probably won't get people far. Once you tell people your title, they begin to doubt...
...Grand Poobah has accepted about 10 other certified fluff cases into her club, including The Wise and Far Seeing Vizier, and The Most High Mufti...
Creativity and improvisation went into many entries. Chesrios, stuffed animals and marshmallow fluff were the secrets to success behind a few of the surviving eggs. A watermelon, a potted plant and several huge snowballs weren't so lucky. Cornell Daily...
Some television executives criticize CBS the Thursday's children features as fluff and are uneasy about their inclusion in newscasts, contending that they are a form of advocacy. Says the news director of one of WXIA's rival stations in Atlanta: "They are a special service for a special group, and I could list 200 others that don't get that kind of play. But they can make a station seem to have a big heart...