Word: fodder
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...sentiments exactly. Please. Both sides in this dopey doggy dispute need to get a little perspective, and so do the rest of us. Since DeGeneres's tele-meltdown, the story has become cable news fodder and the adoption agency owners say they've received death threats. But they're standing firm, despite the fact that they've broken the heart of the family's daughter, who looks like the kind of kid any pooch would love to greet every day at the school bus stop. It's not as if DeGeneres gave the dog to Michael Vick...
...only a tiny shift in perception before everything a person does can be misconstrued. Just like that, the assets Affleck had relied on became liabilities. His spirited antics began to look oafish. Instead of being witty and wry, he came across as smug. And all of it became media fodder. In the words of one movie critic (O.K., Time's Richard Corliss), he was "a commodity that gets consumed in checkout lines" rather than in a cinema. Every decision he made appeared to be exactly the wrong...
...perspective on biology to strike an appropriate balance between providing useful technical vocabulary and dumping a list of Latin on the reader, and they do so without sacrificing their authoritative tone.The 27-page introduction leaves little to the imagination, providing a whirlwind overview of chemistry as well as fodder for the critics. While its writing is lucid and well-illustrated, a reader not intimately versed in (at least) Advanced Placement high school chemistry might find its pace too quick.But the introduction is an admirable attempt to remedy the challenge the authors recognize in the book’s preface?...
Evan J. Lushing ’04 and Gregory R. Atwan ’05 are planning to make a career out of an activity college students nationwide use as fodder for amusement—surfing the Facebook. This spring, the duo aims to release a facetious guidebook for the popular social networking Web site created by Harvard dropout Mark E. Zuckerberg, formerly of the Class of 2006. The book, Lushing said, will feature joke pieces, satires, urban legends, and “fictional and fanciful” anecdotes. “The book is like a Facebook...
...easier to find on Helsinki menus than the wild Finnish strawberry exploding with the flavor of 20 hours of sunshine a day. And although Finns have figured out how to safely prepare korvasieni, a poisonous false-morel mushroom, by boiling it three times, porcini were long considered reindeer fodder...