Word: gossip
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Murdoch arrived in New York by way of London, already schooled in scandal. In Britain he owns the backstairs-gossip weekly News of the World, with the largest circulation of any English-language paper in the world, and the lurid London Sun, which pictures a topless young woman on Page 3 every day. After snubbing Murdoch for years, the British establishment seven years ago had to send for him to keep one of its most prestigious papers, the Times of London, from going under. At some cost to its independence, character and authority, he succeeded. He did so by overcoming...
...ally Kuwait would be drawn into the Iran-Iraq war. Mylroie also spoke with many friends she had met at Harvard or on previous visits to the Middle East about what the people think of the latest foreign policy developments. "I catch up with them as to what the gossip of the country is and what the talk is," Mylroie says...
...kitchen for especial fire in the spicing. Blessedly, there is no music. Decor is minimal, which only shows off the Ta Chien work to better effect. The best of the fortune cookies tells us, "Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food." Is this subtle criticism of gossip journalism...
Cats marked another notable departure for Lloyd Webber. During rehearsals he fell in love with Brightman, who was gamboling as one of the show's kittens after a stint as lead singer of the sexy rock group Hot Gossip. In 1983 his twelve-year marriage ended in divorce, and he wed Brightman the following year. Custody of the two children, Imogen, now 10, and Nicholas, 8, went to their mother...
...kitchen for especial fire in the spicing. Blessedly, there is no music. Decor is minimal, which only shows off the Ta Chien work to better effect. The best of the fortune cookies tells us, "Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food." Is this subtle criticism of gossip journalism...