Word: gossiped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York's Beautiful People, filed last June for divorce from City Councilman Carter Burden, descendant of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. But with a jet-setter's impatience, Amanda flew off to Sun Valley, Idaho, where the ritual takes a mere six weeks. The change prompted gossip-column wonderings about a romance with Senator Edward
...style has remained but the spark has gone. Friedrich has changed all that. "A genius like Richard Wagner," he says, "inevitably provides room for a whole complex of often contradictory interpretations." There was nothing contradictory about the box office results after the news of his scandalous Tannhäuser. Gossip about Bayreuth's impending demise stopped, the Bavarian ministry denied it had ever thought of cutting off subsidies, and the paying public, though it may have come to denounce, remained to cheer. Said Wolfgang: "When Grandfather went to Bayreuth, he conceived it as a workshop. Tannhäuser...
...course, the only topic of conversation. There is always the question of the winds for tomorrow's sailing, or the prospects confronting George McGovern, or the latest gossip about who misbehaved after too many vodkas and tonic. But sooner or later, among the gatherings of the well-to-do and fashionable on the Massachusetts resort islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket,* the talk is likely to turn into bitter arguments over this summer's No. 1 question: Should the Federal Government move in and take charge of preserving the islands...
...full weight of Albion's reprobation. Three of them were busted, haled into court and subjected to a campaign of vilification from the English right-wing press. The Stones became the scapegoats of England's drug problem, and their legal vicissitudes provided London with the juiciest gossip since the Profumo scandal...
That batch of back-courtroom gossip followed a story by the National Observer's Nina Totenberg reporting that the court had had its first racial incident. Justice Marshall had asked for a rescheduling of a judicial conference so that he could attend the funeral of a relative. When Chief Justice Burger found that the new date would conflict with the funeral of former Justice James Byrnes, which he felt a duty to attend, the conference was switched back to the original date. No one told Marshall about the change; the conference was held, and cases were debated and decided...