Word: gossiped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...selling supermarket tabloids in the U.S., announced that it would pay $105 million to buy the Globe, the third biggest. The deal would also give American Media ownership of other Globe titles, including the Sun and the National Examiner, putting nearly all of America's tabloid gossip under one corporate umbrella. This raises big journalistic issues: Are the heady days when the tabs fought for JonBenet Ramsey and Prince William exclusives about to end in polite cooperation? Will tabloid journalism ever be guilty fun again...
Just before he arrived at the breakout discussion titled "Breaking Gossip: Matt Drudge and the Monica Lewinsky Scoop," he was logged on to his America On-Line account in the process of finalizing this week's Time cover story...
...open-toe shoes) to how to deal with berserk telephone calls ("Let the angry caller rant for a minute or two") to how to fire an employee ("Get straight to the point when the person sits down in your office"). The Posts even offer guidelines for office gossip, which the authors believe is inevitable ("You could wind up covered in mud if you dish dirt about the wrong person"). The Posts also deal with private problems, like what you should do if a co-worker has bad breath or smelly feet. Their bottom line: etiquette is a fancy name...
Look in on the high school, and you'll see a real-life Benetton ad in which whites and blacks joke and gossip easily between classes, study together in the library and date one another. Jonathan counts among his best friends three white guys in his choir class. "Blacks and whites mix in real well together here," he says. Sally Roth, a white senior, agrees. "Race doesn't really matter here," she says. "I've dated black guys, and so have just about all my friends...
...front of every competitor. When the ball finds its home, chugging commences. There are many varieties in this game of agility, and hand-eye coordination tends to decrease as the game unfolds. But most beer games don't require physical activities. "I Never", the drinking version of a gossip column, creates a forum for sexual discovery; "Circle of Death" has too many rules for serious drinkers, but this card game is guaranteed to destroy inhibitions; "Beiruit" is a simple game of chucking ping-pong balls into your opponent's cups organized in a triangle; last but not least, "Quarters...