Word: fodder
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...jealous and deceitful as the humans they created, and a snake-woman whose gaze turns men to stone, are at least as edifying and entertaining as stories about the multiplying of loaves and fishes or the parting of a sea. It's religious doctrine as bedtime fable, and suitable fodder for a movie epic...
Dance, if you haven't noticed, is hot. It's not the high-art sensation it was in the '70s, when Robbins and George Balanchine were working, companies such as the Joffrey Ballet and Alvin Ailey were drawing hip new audiences, and stars like Baryshnikov were celeb-magazine fodder. Instead, it has glided into the mass-audience mainstream. Broadway shows like Billy Elliot and Fela! (the Afrobeat musical choreographed by Bill T. Jones) put dance front and center. The ballet-like triple axels of Olympic figure skaters drew huge ratings at the Winter Games. And TV hits like Dancing with...
...health bill they passed late last year with a filibuster-proof 60-vote majority. House Republicans also used the procedure of "deeming" Senate legislation passed without a direct vote 35 times during the last Republican-controlled Congress. And none of these instances of parliamentary maneuvering ended up as campaign fodder. (See the top 10 players in health care reform...
Meanwhile, the HSLDA says it is working to defend a homeschooling family in Sweden and is investigating cases in Brazil, where homeschooling is banned - all good fodder for a comparative-government class, whether it's taught in school or at home...
Rank these Olympics wherever you choose. Were they more inspired than Torino, but lacking a transcendent moment like Lake Placid? Perhaps more accomplished than Salt Lake City, but short of the juicy tabloid fodder of Lillehammer? Such arguments are why sports are fun. But a decade or more from now, please remember a singular fact about Vancouver: though the beginning was awful, the ending was pitch-perfect...