Word: fodder
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Some of the teen TV shows and films are throwbacks to classic (i.e., old) Hollywood fodder. Lizzie McGuire, a genteel sitcom about a middle schooler, her parents and school friends, provides cheerful role models and helpful homilies. Dissing gets scrubbed into snappy patter, dysfunction into amiable eccentricity. And Duff makes the medicine go down with spoonfuls of beguilement. A budding beauty with good comic timing and the sense not to hit her emotions on the nose, she almost turns Lizzie into a striver. "She doesn't exactly fit in at school," Duff says. "Even though she's cool...
...Keefes’ unconventional upbringing has contributed to their current success, not merely as fodder for the family’s screen writing endeavors...
...this hilarious comedy of errors, otherwise known as the Harvard Classical Club’s production of Plautus’ ancient Roman comedy. A provocative medley of song and satire, this bawdy parade of stock characters and wild confrontations has charmed audiences for over 2000 years, providing the inspirational fodder behind Shakespeare’s A Comedy of Errors and Sondheim’s A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. See story on page B-6. Friday, March 14, at 7:30 p.m., and Saturday, March 15, at 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Tickets...
...recondite mazes of Cubism, so open, so impregnable, are what followed. Very soon, with the ferocity and radical distortions of a single canvas, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Picasso would turn every other artist into cannon fodder and take from Matisse the leadership role within the avant-garde. Georges Braque and Andre Derain, onetime Fauvists, defected to Picasso's camp. In time Picasso would even usurp Matisse's position in the affections--and worse, in the collection--of Matisse's once devoted patron Gertrude Stein...
...conversation flows back into standard first date fodder when Emily asks about his intersession trip to Tulsa, OK, to visit a friend...