Word: fodder
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...been tossed over waterfalls and blown to bits. Then there is the usual assortment of beatings and shootings that are par for the action-hero course. One thing’s for sure: Arnold always comes back. He takes a licking and keeps on kicking. Everything is fodder for this one-man Bosnia: He blasts his way to salvation, leaving more corpses in his wake than an Ebola epidemic. Villains of all stripes are dispatched with terse one-liners. “Consider that a divorce,” he grunts as he blows away Sharon Stone in Total Recall...
Those who tell everyone every last detail of their weekend hook-up are trying to impress, to seem cool, to dominate the spotlight. For this reason, their love stories tend to get more elaborate with repetition. What starts out as a simple misunderstanding over a kiss becomes fodder suitable for Jerry Springer, with jealous roommates lurking behind corners and backstabbing friends trying to foil the plot...
...triumphant scene turns grotesque as a crosswalk parking job provides the fodder for another pounce by Logan security. Over our protests, a red-faced security guard calls for a tow-truck. All is lost...
...government activism has produced some great achievements all across the country, and it is a shame that because of a few loud voices and a tradition of ‘student services,’ our council shies away from issues that are important to students and have been fodder for student governments for hundreds of years,” liberal stalwart Smith says...
...able to separate Harry Potter from Daniel Radcliffe, and vice versa. Why ruin the imagination that Rowling seems to advocate so strongly? Once the movie studio makes a $120-million dollar blockbuster from an insanely popular children’s book, it has provided the public with enough franchise fodder to last another ten years or more, especially since Rowling will probably take just that long to publish her next three novels...