Word: gossiped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Parkhurst first sent flyers to truckstops, asking truckers to respond with their ideas for a new magazine. He intended to publish something more serious and businesslike than the "gossip sheets" that had been around previously...
...Gossip will always be around and so, apparently, will gossip columnists. Among the syndicated survivors...
JOYCE HABER, 41, an exceptionally literate gossip, tattles about movie stars and camp followers five times a week in the Los Angeles Times and 58 other papers. An alumna of TIME'S Beverly Hills bureau, she replaced Hedda Hopper in 1966, and West Coast wits began referring to her as Hedda Haber. At first she adopted a bitchy, initial-cluttered style ("What was Miss P.P. doing with Mr. V.V. at... ") that earned her many enemies. Later the scourge of Celluloid City dropped the initials and developed a more serious reportorial approach. In the past few weeks, for example...
With his sparrow eyes and landmark beak, Leonard Lyons was a more recognizable fixture at Manhattan's expensive restaurants than any six headwaiters. He came not to dine but to gather crumbs of gossip, morsels of color-occasionally some meaty news-about any celebrity he could buttonhole in his non stop table-hopping. Was Joe DiMaggio flying to New York "for some dates at El Morocco"? Lyons heard it there and so reported. What did Artur Rubinstein's wife cook for dinner the night before? The pianist gave Lyons the answer (Polish chicken...
...Garcia's One Hundred Years of Solitude is the only book to distill the experience of three centuries of European interaction with the Americas into a paradigm of history, culture, morals, and psychology. He proves that a political novel need not be on the level of satire or gossip, that it can rise above Allen Drury and Gore Vidal and Fletcher Knebel. Garcia's heroes are political heroes, and they are better heroes than carefully apolitical novelists have been able to create...