Word: fodder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...State politicians used the results of the initial April testing--where 59 percent of the 1,800 prospective teachers failed to pass all three areas-- as campaign fodder, demanding higher standards from Massachusetts teachers...
...tried to sexually assault her on two separate occasions--again while wearing his trademark garter belt. Albert, it is believed, worked out the plea to prevent further details of his sordid sex life--which allegedly included testimony from a drag queen--from becoming late night talk show fodder...
Anne L. Berry '01, president of theHarvard-Radcliffe Republican Club, saw thelong-term effects of impeachment as merely morerecycled fodder for late-night hosts...
Decades ago, Alfred Hitchcock said actors were cattle. Today celebrities are meat: junk food for tabloid headlines, canapes for cocktail-party surmise, fodder for Leno and Letterman raillery. Are the charges, whispers and gags true? Hardly matters; they need only be entertaining. Star tattle proceeds from two American impulses: cynicism and sentimentality. Sentimentally we imagine that a popular artist must have hidden depths. Cynically we suspect that every star must have a guilty secret; all that power, money and spare time allow them to act out any sick whim. Gossip has become the purest form of show biz, a story...
Arianna isn't talking, except to say that she wishes Huffington well and to point out that she has written that private sex lives shouldn't be fodder for reporters and rival politicians. Brock defends his piece, saying he told Huffington from the outset--the two met four years ago, just after Huffington lost the most expensive U.S. Senate race in history--that their friendship wouldn't stop Brock from writing an honest article. Friends admit that Huffington was naive to think Esquire would print the touchy-feely piece he had hoped...