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...gossip goes that on his return he pursued at least two other eligible young women. But it was always really Owada. The prince wanted no other, and the imperial household had persuaded itself that her grandfather was blameless in the Chisso disaster and that any dalliances Masako-san may have had were unimportant. She, meanwhile, was laboring at the ministry, scrupulous about providing up-to-date information and taking pains with the phrasing of documents so as not to nettle other parties to a negotiation...
...years, cable-TV operators and telephone companies have behaved like jealous rivals -- spreading gossip about each other's weaknesses, whining to regulators about monopolistic bullying and watching with suspicion any attempt by one to poach on the other's territory. The sniping has grown even shriller in recent months as it became clear that the two industries were on a collision course in their separate efforts to build the so-called electronic super-highway -- that futuristic information pipeline over which people will soon order up everything from the latest Hollywood movies to the hottest new video games...
...reader looking for consistency should open a jar of peanut butter rather than this screed. But as rancid gossip repackaged for national distribution, Queer in America is going to be hard to beat. Signorile learned his trade feeding items to New York City gossip columnists. He was an innuendo specialist who now touts himself as the pioneer of "outing," the distasteful practice of publicizing the private lives of homosexuals who do not feel the need to advertise what goes on in their bedrooms. By outing the famous, Signorile believes he is liberating all homosexuals from shame and guilt...
...condemned to Winthrop House--the "high school" house, the house where Madonna blasts at every party, the house where gossip runs rampant from one dining hall table to the next...
...gossip all the time, and Madonna's as out of fashion here as it is everywhere else...