Word: fodder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seen this type of wartime melodrama too many times before. The officers are all cannibalistic monsters, the bedraggled rank and file scream cannon fodder, and the black and white cinematography, far from a stark, chilling revelation of the nightmare that is war, is predictable and bland...
...they were drive-in classics, but that's because kids didn't go to drive-ins for the movies. The A.I.P. films were moldy melodramas whose only nod to '50s spirit was in their titles. If they were to show up on TV now, it would only be as fodder for the brilliant deconstructionist raillery of Mystery Science Theater...
Elizabeth may be the last irreproachable monarch -- perhaps the last viable one. Some earlier rulers have been reprobates, but by custom, the press protected them. Now royals are the cannon fodder in media wars, as the Prince of Wales found out when his puerile but genuinely intimate telephone talk with Parker Bowles -- the infamous "Tampax tapes" -- was leaked...
...firmly entrenched is his image, so unformed hers, that the tape had the perverse effect in some quarters of helping to explain his conduct and incriminate her. Hey, she had a boyfriend. What's more, she entertained him in the living room O.J. paid for, and her antics provided fodder for an article in the National Enquirer that made him look like a cuckolded male. That's something men, at least the ones calling into sports talk shows, can sympathize with. This must be what the founding lawyers had in mind when they concocted the heat-of-passion defense. Radio...
...with Mack's Harvard affiliation and Pulitzer Prize, won in 1977 for a biography of T.E. Lawrence, his book hardly seems likely fodder for Oprah...