Word: fodder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact that religious novels have a longer shelf life than secular ones, publishers plan to expand and diversify. The next wave is likely to be adventures and spy thrillers aimed at a big untapped market: men. There is plenty of peril left in the Northwest to provide fodder for those adventure novels. But espionage depends on deception, double dealing and lying. It's hard to see how God will work his way without ruining the plot...
...although this class might seem like fodder for The Confidential Guide to Courses, Huggan says it has the rigor of a standard Harvard course...
...talk-show summit in New York City last weekend. "The guests are entertaining. Our show is a silly show. Get a life!" But Gordon Elliott concedes, "I don't think Bennett is off the mark. The concerns he has, every family man and family woman would have." Sounds like fodder for at least a week of shows...
...felonious fellatious activity with a hooker named Divine Brown, it was inevitable that late-night talk-show host Jay Leno would crack wise ("Welcome to Hollywood, or, as Hugh Grant calls it, Tonsiltown!"). But deep into July, Grant's peccadillo is still front-page news and late-night joke fodder. Last week, as he dutifully kept four talk-show dates in the U.S. to promote his new comedy, Nine Months, he was also a reluctant nightly guest on David Letterman's Top 10 list. Least Popular Summer Drink No. 6: "Hugh Grant's Backseat Snapple...
...that promises some tax cuts but stops short of the $353 billion giveaway favored by Gramm. Candidate Dole's lurch to the right has led him to attempt perilous U-turns, such as his sudden endorsement of moving the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, that will create fodder for rivals' television commercials early next year. But Dole's job as majority leader keeps him front and center with a general-election audience that distrusts some of the conservative agenda. For now, Dole will stick with the juggling act. As campaign manager Reed puts it, "We continue to think...