Word: gossip
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...metal bands that have renounced their raunchy roots and polished their music, if not their image. Gone are the crude lyrics and blaring wah-wah guitars that marked its sound in the mid-' 80s. Many of the tunes on Metallica could almost be called reflective, like Holier Than Thou: "Gossip is burning on the tip of your tongue/ You lie so much you believe yourself/ Judge not lest you be judged yourself...
...dubbed him "that Virgin Mary in pants." In reality, Hoover was permanently on the take: he decorated his home at government expense, funneled royalties from his ghostwritten books into a private slush fund, accepted free vacations in Florida and California from toadying millionaires. Hoover had no qualms about using gossip about clandestine homosexual encounters for blackmail. Meanwhile, he was seen so often in the company of his deputy, Clyde Tolson, that stories constantly circulated that the two bachelors were lovers. (Gentry leaves unresolved the question of Hoover's homosexuality and generally is better at describing what the director did than...
...yellow totem gown, a Nefertiti of the '90s. Or Linda Evangelista looking like a Scottish schoolgirl on the cover of Vogue. Or Christy Turlington gazing serenely from an ad for Calvin Klein's Eternity perfume. Naomi. Linda. Christy. They're everywhere. Vogue, Elle, feature pages, ad pages, gossip pages. Selling couture and catalogs, soap and sportswear. And during the fall fashion shows these three have sashayed their impossibly sleek, improbably long-legged frames down the runways in New York City, Paris and Milan...
...that's often -- it's news. The fashion world quivers as her hair goes from dark brown to platinum blond to Technicolor red. Campbell's life and loves are chronicled as much as her face; her reputed affair with Robert De Niro has become a staple of the celebrity gossip pages...
...Campbell, granddaughter of the British press tycoon Lord Beaverbrook. As a favor to the Beaver, TIME in 1956 found a minor job in its picture department for Lady Jeanne. Luce became so openly smitten with this cheerful redhead, 31 years his junior, that rumors of the affair appeared in gossip columns. He discussed a divorce with Clare but backed away, Martin alleges, when she attempted suicide and demanded editorial control of Time Inc. as the price of freedom. On the rebound, Lady Jeanne ^ briefly and tempestuously married novelist Norman Mailer...