rubbernecks

A writer in the New York _Sun_ says: "I first heard the term 'rubbernecks' in

America To-day, Observations and Reflections William Archer 1890

This "woman" is like a car crash and we're all rubbernecks. yuri

MoveOn ad campaign targets Hagan over 'public option' 2009

As the five go off together, Touchstone rubbernecks to eye up Audrey just before they go out of frame.

Whatever the Fuck You Want Hal Duncan 2010

As the five go off together, Touchstone rubbernecks to eye up Audrey just before they go out of frame.

Archive 2010-02-01 Hal Duncan 2010

Even if that's not your usual cup of java -- and you claim no prurient interests -- everybody rubbernecks when a star meets a tragic end.

Jane Minogue: Hooray for Hollywood's Dearly Departed Jane Minogue 2011

Now all Carbonne needed was a stretch of back road with zero traffic on it, and lots of trees to screen him from the local rubbernecks.

Static 2010

Reg Harkema's story of a pair of ex-radicals (Don McKellar and Tracy Wright) who, hiding from the Man, inadvertently burrow deeper into the System - scrounging junkyards and garage sales for looked-over treasures they can hawk online, they scrape by as the ultimate free marketeers, albeit on a Mom and Pop scale - rubbernecks between the sad comedy and hilarious sincerity of a nostalgia for the lost ideals of the 60s.

GreenCine Daily: Austin Dispatch. 1. 2007

The whiners and grumblers at Fox News will find an audience, just as auto wrecks find rubbernecks on the highway.

Deepak Chopra: How to Deal with Fox News 2009

They once had good reporting, but have devolved into Chandra-Lacy-Natalie underwear sniffing rubbernecks.

"The most disappointing shift is to see the partisan attitude move from prime time into what’s supposed to be straight news programming." Ann Althouse 2008

Everyone rubbernecks at car accidents; cable news ratings soar when there's a natural disaster or a heinous murder.

THE NEWS BLOG 2005