Word: fodders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...novels were written in accordance with an unyieldingly moral ideology they could engender in their readers unsalutory desires and vicissitudes of emotion. Yet women's actual existence--their good works, the various musical and artistic talents with which they embellished themselves, their letter-writing and social calls--offered little fodder for fiction, except in the hands of an adept like Jane Austen. Instead of presenting happy alternatives to boredom, fiction by and for women often presented them in positions of extreme anguish and suffering, spurned by lovers, neglected by husbands, etc. In comparison, Spacks argues, boredom would look good...
...supply the fodder for discussion, editors at The Crimson searched far and wide for a video game that might suitably reflect the needs of the typical Harvard student...
While these cultural products provide fodder for the closer examination of a legitimately interesting sub-culture, they are all guilty of the same, a coarseness which thrives on caricature and which I no longer find remotely funny...
...shows find their guests with newspaper and magazine ads and toll-free numbers flashed onscreen. There is even a National Talk Show Guest Registry, a data base used by many talk shows that lists 2,400 people who have stories or problems they think would make good talk-show fodder. Apparently the chance for a moment of TV fame (and a free trip to New York City or Chicago) outweighs the prospect of embarrassing yourself in front of millions. Maybe, too, talking out your problems in front of a TV audience is a way of validating emotions your friends...
Originally, the American embargo had a strategic purpose. When the Cubans were a Soviet proxy whose territory could hold Soviet missiles and whose troops served as Soviet cannon fodder in hotspots from Latin America to Africa, keeping the Cuban economy weak made some sense. With the Cold War rationale gone, and Soviet subsidies to Cuba gone with it, the embargo theory no longer holds water...