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His spiritual brethren are hard at work in the teabagger ranks, hoping for another catastrophic attention-getter.
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His spiritual brethren are hard at work in the teabagger ranks, hoping for another catastrophic attention-getter.
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It clearly needs an attention-getter – someone to goad viewers into finding Current on their dial, and, if it's not there roughly one-third of the nation's TV homes still can't get it, demanding it from their cable provider.
Keith Olbermann: Current TV Will Be All News In Prime Time 2011
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It clearly needs an attention-getter – someone to goad viewers into finding Current on their dial, and, if it's not there roughly one-third of the nation's TV homes still can't get it, demanding it from their cable provider.
Keith Olbermann: Current TV Will Be All News In Prime Time 2011
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Who knows what's around the corner among the more than 30,000 works covering the past 7,000 years: an ancient Greek idol, a splendid medieval manuscript, a Rembrandt portrait, a rarely seen Impressionist painting, an Andy Warhol attention-getter or a 21st-century up-and-coming ceramist?
The Art World's Yearly Pilgrimage Margaret Studer 2011
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County GOP chairman Bill Heck told TPMDC that the newsletter was "an attention-getter" in terms of its political rhetoric.
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I had the chance to talk w/Cory for a couple of posts for our library blog - he's visiting Seattle this weekend - and he is a terrific representative for SF for readers of all ages that may discover him through this attention-getter, and then be drawn back to the SF aisle.
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Sure, it's a foolproof attention-getter, but it also requires the entertainer to constantly out-moron himself in order to have a career.
Soft Options: Day-Tripping to Danger BikeSnobNYC 2010
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Keep in mind that it is a schtick, an act, an ad, an attention-getter.
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From the Banksy intro to the Vatican's adoption of Homer to Katy Perry's puppet canoodling, "The Simpsons" has managed to make headlines often this season -- yet nothing on the show has proved to be a more consistent attention-getter lately than its verbal digs at Fox News.
FOX NEWS JABS: Is 'The Simpsons' guilty of overkill? Michael Cavna 2010
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