Word: gossiped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scared not to read Women's Wear. We are influenced by it?everybody in fashion is." So are some 10,000 other readers outside the industry, who are fascinated by WWD's piquant brew of gossip, profiles, trendy tips and incisive reviews. Eleanor Lambert, fashion's foremost publicist, is no particular fan of Women's Wear, and vice versa. Still, she feels that the paper "has the same impact as Walter Winchell once did. Winchell humanized the theater and let people see glimpses of human foible behind the scenes. Women's Wear has done the same to fashion. The press...
From then on, WWD relentlessly pushed the midi. In stories, gossip items and pictures, it pounded the theme: "The whole look of American women will now change, and die-hard miniskirt adherents are going to be out in the fashion cold." In Rome, Fairchild photographers found "Longuette Thoroughbreds" at a horse show. In London, they spotted "Longuette Birds" and "Sportive Longuettes." Back in the U.S., the paper claimed that executives along Manhattan's Seventh Avenue, the central
...great poetry. Nature has often endowed her poets in disturbing and mystifying ways. Take Robert Frost, for example -known to a vast public as the lovable old curmudgeon with the little horse and the harness bells. As this mercilessly detailed biography shows, Frost was jealous and vindictive, a malicious gossip and a petty schemer. The man who told the world he had promises to keep broke them frequently for gain or spite. The Years of Triumph is not a first crack in Frost's lovingly fashioned public image. Before the poet's death, Randall Jarrell, writing with brilliance...
...with the poems provide some striking insights: the actual events which led to "The Emperor of Ice Cream" and "The Ordinary Women," when juxtaposed with the texts, makes for exciting critical handiwork. But what one asks most from the biography-the anecdotes, the psychology, the flesh, the sheer literary gossip which would go a long way toward taking Stevens out of the half-light of his insurance office-is missing. It's not that the tools are unavailable: Erikson's book on Gandhi, Walter Jackson Bate's on Keats. Nancy Milford's on Zelda Fitzgerald, and Harold Bloom's book...
...exchanges have only rarely taken a stock away from any specialist. Since specialists enjoy a monopoly position, some tend to become slothful. The floor brokers who deal with them gossip about those who, out of timidity or cupidity, have failed to perform well. If the specialist system were not so politically controlled, the exchanges might consider dismissing a few specialists. In addition, the exchanges might do well to permit floor brokers to vote secretly every year on which specialists to drop from the club...