Word: gossip
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crowd just glitters under the lights," says Tatum. Jewelry winks as hands make notations on the little cards provided with gold-tasseled pencils. Houston is a show-and-tell city. It loves to gossip, and for every woman sitting in the select, reservations-only audience who prefers to remain anonymous, there are two others eager to talk about run-around husbands, face- . lifts and other people's problematic origins. The biographical tid-bits always begin with husbands: past, present and future. For most of these women, their husbands are their careers. The sober choice of expensive clothes is important...
...will vs. psychosis and despair. True, the record glistens with names: William Randolph Hearst, Constance Bennett, the Prince of Wales and, of course, a parade of Vanderbilts and Whitneys. But they are the literary equivalent of sequins on an evening dress. Once Upon a Time is no clothbound gossip column, and its heroine is not the triumphant lady of the commercials, with shiny eyes and fixed grin. She is the buried child of long, long ago, still eager to please, still hungry for love, still dreaming of release...
...through intercourse, progressive reformers focused their attacks on foreign prostitutes in the cities and on immorality in all classes. Bachelor parties, once the site of last minute merry-making, became the object of criticism and fear and muckrakers took every opportunity to make the venereal problem "a subject of gossip...
Indeed, the staff--which number in the hundreds--often act like they own the place. Many exchange gossip with the Queen herself, though they wait until she's out of sight before boxing an unruly Royal baby on the ear (the young rascal Prince Andrew once got a black eye from an exasperated footman, but the Queen said nothing). Competition for prestigious jobs, like serving at state banquets, can be fierce, and the slightest brashness inevitably leads to a servant's being "sacked...
...reported in the International Press. She fought incessantly with her husband, but Barry does his best to dance around these scenes. "Everyone at the Palace was worried that the fairy tale romance was going to collapse," he admits, but ultimately he tells little of specific quarrels-the type of gossip that Royal watches crave...