Word: fluff
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...been backed onto the stage unknowing, while the crowd roared. The obvious solution to this was the BBC, which sucks talent like bits of fluff into that big white building, where it's safe forever. But I had my tattered pride. In fact, my whole array of virtues was intact; only the man behind them was missing. I didn't really give a damn anymore whether I was English or American, but the U.S. was still the prairie of record, the place where the garbled soul of Chatworth could re-create itself. Or failing that, become famous...
Cambridge State Rep. Saundra Graham, a colleague of Ackermann on the City Council, said yesterday, "I do not think that she is anyone to fluff off. I would support her absolutely...
...best, critics say, news doctors prescribe cures that are either superficial or self-evident. "Any editors worth their salt shouldn't have to pay money to consultants," says Charles Whipple, the Boston Globe's ombudsman. At worst, the use of consultants leads to an epidemic of fluff at the expense of hard news. Magid and Dallas' Belden Associates usually advise clients to squeeze some front-page nation al and international news into a box of summaries. After an audience study last year by Belden and some in-house soul searching, the Miami News began to boil much...
...reference book enticingly mixes facts and fluff...
...victorious day on the football field last year in New Haven, can attest to the vibrancy and sincerity which they derive from the foreign tongue and tunes in their musical offerings. Anyway, if you find the all-Russian diet too filling, you can piirouetteska down to Winthrop to fluff out on "L'Appllon de Ballac" or up to the Yen Ching Library to decipher I Ching...