Word: gossiped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Elders in Congress and the Cabinet delight in deriding him as the symbol of what ails the Carter Administration. Gossip columnists depict him as oafish, lecherous or both. His marriage has ended in divorce. Yet, having absorbed enough torpedoes to sink the most buoyant of careers, Hamilton Jordan has done more than merely stay afloat as Jimmy Carter's most trusted aide. He has expanded his range in both administrative and policy matters and is now even scrubbing up his image. White House Correspondent Laurence I. Barrett reports...
...since Lizzie Borden gave her mother 40 whacks has a daughter wreaked such vengeance on her mother. But instead of using an ax as a weapon, Christina Crawford has wielded a pen?in a book, Mommie Dearest, that is the publishing gossip sensation of the fall season...
...Long before she saw her first play, Marian Seldes knew she would become an actress. Recently, she became an author as well. The Bright Lights: A Theatrical Life is not the autobiography of a famous person, because "I'm not famous." Nor is it a book of Theatrical Celebrities gossip, though memories of Tallulah Bankhead and Laurence Olivier fill the pages. Instead, The Bright Lights interweaves anecdotes with analysis to describe "a lifetime of work in the theatre." The work ranges from the triumph of Equus, which offered the change to act with three stars--Anthony Hopkins, Anthony Perkins...
...farmers in Mesopotamia in 8000 B.C. He rises before dawn to pull on boots, blue jeans and work shirt. By 6 a.m. he is breakfasting with some neighbors at the Double D Diner off Interstate 94 outside Sabin, Minn. (pop. 333). For an hour or so, he trades community gossip, argues about politics and drops casual remarks about crops and prices designed to feel out what his fellow farmers are doing without asking them a direct question, which is taboo. Then off to the fields?and into the computer...
...moments with expert clarity, and has given the production a professional rhythm. The actors, however mechanically they drone their lines, pick up on cues and set the swift pace essential for building and maintaining tension. Gerber displays a deft hand for creating effective stage pictures. When Mary extorts the gossip from her schoolmates that she will use to tar Karen and Martha, Gerber places her high above them on a ladder, smiling evilly down on the hapless girls. Again, during the scene of Mary's accusation, Gerber stands the teachers just outside the room, their faces shadowed by elaborate lattice...