Word: gossiped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...want to learn how to be better writers. Nor does it have any desire to be critical about America's press, advertising or television. What it does want to do, however, is jam the issue so full with big names as to appeal to anyone interested in the latest gossip in all three areas. Those curious about the seamier side of the press will enjoy reading about "Ben and Sally." T.V. viewers will no doubt want to read about Walter and Walters. Advertising moguls can learn what Ted Bates is up to. And those ubiquitous Times watchers should...
...steers clear of political as well as personal problems in their patter: "Hallelujah Baby, about black-white relations in the U.S., never got an ending, somehow...we had to keep changing it as the front pages changed." Though Comden and Green are to be respected for not indulging in gossip or trying to play up themselves by playing off others, perhaps this matured, mellowed presentation makes their show too smooth, too digestible...
Indeed, in the South, funerals are an integral part of the family experience. By the time a child has reached majority, he probably has been to a dozen funerals of older aunts, uncles and cousins. Obsequies provide a chance for catching up on the latest gossip or to do a little business. Southerners still pay condolence calls in the parlor, where they sit for hours with the bereaved, rarely mentioning the dead. At times, church services can be as flowery as a dime-store sympathy card-or as colorful as an Erskine Caldwell novel. Recently one backwoods Alabama dirt farmer...
...Novelist James Dickey (Deliverance) has written, "The South has a long tradition of slow-moving, of standing and watching, of having the time-of giving ourselves the time-to sit on country porches and courthouse Confederate monuments and on green benches in public parks and tell each other stories, gossip and use words." The conversation is richly spiced with humor in all its forms: tart, loving, irreverent and sometimes unprintable...
These petty squabbles take on significance beyond good gossip, though, if you consider the roots and the history of the immigrant, anti-Brahmin Boston from which they spring. Why, when parents from Southie, Eastie, Hyde Park and Charlestown hold a summit conference to discuss how to undermine the uppity "niggers" and, increasingly, "spics", are they also kicking each other under the table? Why, for example, does a once outspoken liberal like Mayor Kevin White have to uncommittedly walk a tightrope on the busing issue, protecting himself with a net of double-talking and triple-talking aides below...