Word: fodder
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Sept. 11 soon came along and gave us an actual crisis to focus on. But it was hardly the end of turning fear into infotainment. If anything, terrorism became more fodder...
...worked to alter President George W. Bush's dark first-term relations with Latin America, when Chávez called Bush "the devil" in large part because the White House had tacitly backed the 2002 coup attempt. As a result, the Latin left has less anti-Yanqui fodder to ignite. Shannon's nominated successor, Arturo Valenzuela, should have an easier time as a result. Still, even if the Honduran crisis has made them temporary allies, making U.S.-Venezuela relations permanently chévere - or swell - will be one of Valenzuela's toughest tasks...
...concern that future government officials might refuse to cooperate with criminal investigations if they think what they say could open them up to ridicule ("I don't want a future Vice President to say, "I'm not going to cooperate with you because I don't want to be fodder for The Daily Show...
...Stodgy types might dismiss these last five as genre films - sophisticated updates of the cartoons and B-movie action fodder with which Hollywood used to corral the kiddies at Saturday matinees. But, first of all, those unpedigreed items today outshine much of the solemn epics produced in the '30s and '40s. And second, the five chosen films of 2008 were all examples of a different kind of genre: the nobility-in-distress art-house drama. Ever since the mid-'90s, when Miramax Films' Harvey Weinstein figured out how to win Oscars by assiduously promoting movies of elevated angst, the ceremony...
...Edward C. Forst ’82 may not be known for his intimidating stature, but it has proved useful fodder for his self-effacing sense of humor...