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...grandmother, who Satrapi depicts as a highly independent, worldly woman who goes from bad-tempered ogre to mild and caring "grandma" only after having her morning tea with a bit of opium mixed in. After the dishes are done, she presides over more tea as the women exchange juicy gossip and confession in a process best described by the grandmother. "Speaking behind other's backs ventilates the heart." Briefly liberated from the constraints of their male-dominated culture the women speak freely and frankly of love, sex and relationships in the context of a defiantly traditional culture lurching into...
...weeks, the tightly knit world of market research has been abuzz with gossip about Coke's mistake. "It appears to be a colossal marketing blunder," says George Mihaly, head of the consulting division of Crossley Surveys. Mihaly discovered widespread adverse reaction to the new Coke while conducting an unrelated study of upper-level managers. When asked for their opinion of the change in Coke, all the executives gave it a negative review. Since he had done some work for Coke in the past, Mihaly told, his findings to high-level contacts at the company. The early warnings were apparently ignored...
...alias "New Jersey Hack Sack" and communicated regularly with other computer owners over a loosely organized network of electronic bulletin boards. A computer search of the contents of those boards by Detective George Green and Patrolman Michael Grennier, who is something of a hacker himself, yielded a flood of gossip, advice, tall tales and hard information, including excerpts from an AT&T satellite manual, dozens of secret telephone numbers and lists of stolen credit card numbers...
...about GM's imminent arrival as they were over an important Little League game in which Andersen's Hardware blasted Jack Warren's Stables by a 30-14 score. At the Poplar Inn on Main Street, where townspeople and truckers can always enjoy pork tenderloin, biscuits and the latest gossip, diners were abuzz about how Maclin Davis, a Nashville lawyer, had accumulated options to buy 4,000 acres around Haynes Haven farm. A few residents had mixed emotions. "I will hate to see the farmlands torn up," said Ronald Woody, assistant principal of Spring Hill High School...
...Mitchell-ian analogy, he attracts gossip like Burberry-patterned flypaper attracts wasps...