Word: gossip
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...installment in the author's sprawling rewrite of U.S. history, and the formula established in such earlier books as Burr (1973) and 1876 (1976) has grown comfy to a fault. Some fictional characters mingle with real people, rich, famous or notorious. Unfolding history can be overheard in drawing-room gossip. In this instance, the invention of the movies provokes drollery about crude, gullible Americans. When the dialogue is witty, Hollywood entertains. But its subject is essentially passing time, and reading it often feels like an exercise in doing just that...
...many ways restored the soul to Bucharest, whose soot-covered older buildings and hideous concrete towers bear witness to how hard Ceausescu tried to kill the city's spirit. The dimly lit cafes in which couples two months ago whispered fearfully over mugs of ersatz tea now ring with gossip over cups of real coffee. Rumanians who once shied in terror from contact with foreigners besiege me as soon as I open my notebook. In the vast plaza of Piata Unirii, crowds that would once have been swiftly dispersed by Securitate goons argue the merits of 30 new political parties...
...losing some $800 million, the Gannett daily finally became profitable. But starting this week it will face competition for the sports nut: the National, the first U.S. all-sports daily. The paper, to be published every day but Saturday, will feature 32 to 48 pages of news, opinion and gossip, with up to half the pages in color. Satellites will enable the National to cover late games, while Dow Jones, parent of the Wall Street Journal, will provide a proven distribution system...
...would have given me a medal." She readily acknowledges that personal attacks sting. "Yes. Absolutely. Fair criticism is hurtful; unfair criticism is doubly hurtful." But Lady Antonia is past her Perfect Woman stage. That ended in 1975, when Antonia Fraser and Harold Pinter discovered each other. Then came the gossip, the headlines, the charges in divorce court. Five turbulent years later they were married. (Both former spouses have since died...