Word: gossip
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...Indonesian archipelago for centuries. The Dutch (mostly) came out on top, and the islands' riches gave rise to the world's first joint-stock company and the world's first corporate logo. Winchester deftly evokes the sleepy rhythms of 19th century colonial life--the hotel bars, the town gossip, a runaway elephant--which go on even as volcanic tremors begin knocking plates off tables, shrouding ships in ash and making compasses spin. Winchester, a geologist by training, initiates us gently into the pleasures of plate tectonics, and he leavens his lectures with big-budget action scenes: when...
...with the group. Anne strongly endorses Harvard, then admonishes me for not getting the “Yale: Harvard for Dummies” T-shirt, saying, “You’ll need it when you go to Harvard.” We engage in some Sarah Hughes gossip, seemingly a popular pastime among the incoming class. Figuring what the hell, I claim to have had a Hughes sighting this morning. Mark is impressed, but Anne cynically sniffs, “I don’t care...
...went back to Broadway for the first time in decades, playing a manipulative gossip columnist in the 2002 Broadway musical Sweet Smell of Success, based on a 1957 film of the same title...
Coming from a man who has played an array of villains, an awkward alien, a gossip columnist and a priest, the vision of art Lithgow promotes is indeed an inclusive one: it spans not only a range of roles and disciplines, but also of participants...
...Reading period is coming up fast and Gossip Guy is ready. Study-guide lies, review-session rumors and drunken afternoon innuendo will define his May?...