Word: gossiped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...COULD a Berkowitz kill a Moskowitz?" the interviewer asks Shelley Duvall as they find their table in a New York restaurant. The latest issue of Andy Warhol's Interview continues in this tasteless vein for 48 pages of newsprint that would like to be glossy, and contains gossip that would like to be sophisticated. It ends up sounding like People magazine, except that artsy condescension replaces human interest...
Unfortunately, Lasky lacks the balanced perspective to shed much light on such complex topics. The author made a mint out of pasting together every available bit of anti-Kennedy rumor, gossip, innuendo and fact to produce his JFK: The Man and the Myth, which sold 220,000 copies in hardback. To turn out his new 438-page volume, he once again wielded scissors and pastepot with savage effect. As before, he has done almost no fresh reporting-one of his major sources, in fact, is his previous, unoriginal book...
Coke officials have no objection to turning majority ownership of their Indian subsidiary over to Indians. But they insist that Coke must retain firm control of the quality of drink produced and, above all, the syrup-making secrets. The original Coke formula, so goes company gossip, is kept in a vault in a Georgia bank and is known to no more than ten people in the world. The formula contains an ingredient called 7X, which no one has managed to duplicate. The Indian government's view is that the 1973 law obliges all foreign-owned companies-European as well...
Cerf was a supreme gossip, and he had the gossip's alert eye for tattletale details. D.H. Lawrence's wife Frieda was a sloppy housekeeper, he noted, and years later he remembered a dirty milk bottle lying on its side in the middle of the Lawrence parlor. Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas were so grubbily dumpy that, on a visit they paid to Random House, an elevator boy automatically deposited them on a floor below, thinking they were going to an employment agency for domestic servants...
...flagging Chattanooga Times and revived it. He set out to work a similar miracle on Park Row, the Times's home until he moved it north in 1904 to Longacre Square (which city fathers then renamed Times Square). Ochs banished fiction from the newspaper and declared that comic strips, gossip columns and other frippery would have no place there. He introduced book reviews and a serious Sunday magazine, and started printing news about the city's growing financial community. Not just any news, but useful news, like the arrival times of mail ships and the names of visiting...