Word: fodder
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...system of nutrient flow and metabolism, in which the very concept of 'waste' does not exist," they write. In other words, things shouldn't be made in the first place if they will ultimately become useless junk. Instead of ending up in a pit, they should become a cradle?fodder or springboard?for some new creation...
...nary a month later, Gelbart, Mencken and Zippel were all gone from the project, and the relationship between Gelbart and Brustein had become tabloid fodder...
Appropriately, we are (almost) never asked to laugh at anyone who succeeded in killing a president. But several failed attempts give fodder for the more humorous scenes in the show, allowing us to laugh only in the comfort of knowing that Ford and Nixon survived. While they are never without a serious subtext, several scenes are highly comic. The two scenes leading up to Fromme and Moore’s attempts on Ford are priceless, delivered with impeccable timing and grooviness by bell-bottom-and-love-bead clad Goldin and Gaffney...
...dramatic figure, given to quoting Shakespeare, Haughey is reportedly not at all pleased to be stage-fodder; his lawyers are said to be scanning the text with litigation in mind. Nor were the Irish media any less sensitive when the Abbey presented the piece. "Haughey fury at Abbey play" blazed the front page of the Sunday Independent, while daytime TV and radio was full of Hinterland talk. Press comments - the Sunday Times (not a reviewer) called Hinterland "feeble, puerile, trite, dissociated, shallow, exploitative and gratuitously offensive" - might also make the Irish Arts Council reluctant to extend more funding...
...this context, the Faculty’s mantra that “ethnic studies are inherently comparative” makes perfect sense; the study of identity should be abstracted from the experiences of particular groups in the same way that history is abstracted from its archeological and philological fodder. And in this general field, Harvard already has courses by the truckload—from theoretical courses on the nature of identity to specific investigations of its role in literature, economics and politics...