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Also fanning the public outrage were the Eagle Forum, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Libertarian Party, which decried the invasion of privacy posed by the "KYC" regs, as they came to be known.
The counterconspiracy theory is that Iraq's U.N. allies are fanning the conspiracy theory in order to soften or get rid of the inspections.
Seamus Heaney's poem The Little Canticles of Asturias, which appeared in the debut issue of SLATE, contains a mesmerizing image of a "smouldering maw/ of a pile of newspapers lit long ago," fanning "up in the wind, breaking off and away/ in flame-posies, small airborne fire-ships."
It's also a culture that hurts the larger society--not just those on welfare--by producing crime, destroying urban life, fanning racial tension, etc.
Afterwards, they cut back to the anchorwoman and she's trading quips with the other newscaster and fanning herself in that Hand-Gesture That Wouldn't Raise an Eyebrow in the Middle of Sunday Services way that very, very middle-aged, very, very white people do to indicate that they have become sexually aroused.