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Which is exactly what Bill Clinton is eager to provoke. Clinton welcomed the N.R.A.'s faux mea culpa last Friday, but only as fodder. It gave him the opportunity to suggest that the N.R.A. donate to the families of cops killed in the line of duty the nearly $1 million that its offensive letter has already raised. That kind of talk will be heard often as the 1996 presidential season matures. Bashing the N.R.A. helps distinguish Clinton from his Republican rivals...
...more proof that sooner or later, in America everything is show biz-fodder for the great infotainment maw of gossip, nostalgia and exploitation. An ad for the movie's sound track announces: "The Panthers had a calling. Now, so do you. Call 1-800-8-panther to win $1,000 instantly in the Panther 'Power to the People' Sweepstakes." As for Horowitz, his potent grievances have been so well publicized that Mario Van Peebles grouses, "He must have a bigger promotion budget than our film does...
...California trip was vital for us as a team," Rueb said. "We had to suck up a couple of losses, but we can use them as fodder for our cannons through the Ivy season...
...what's fun for Brandy's girls may soon be fodder for cyber vice squads. Late last week, as part of an omnibus bill that would overhaul telecommunications policy for the first time in more than 60 years, the Senate Commerce Committee proposed a ban on pornography in cyberspace. The plan, known as the Communications Decency Act of 1995, would make it a crime, punishable by up to $100,000 and two years in jail, to transmit "obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy or indecent" images, E-mail, text files and any other form of communication online...
...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...