Word: gossiped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hong Kong -- Aged Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, who finally made an official appearance in Shanghai last week after being out of the public eye for almost a year, is the focus of much silly gossip over what seems to be a battle between him and rival Communist Party elder Chen Yun to see who can maintain his faculties longer. A source close to Deng's inner circle tells this story: the 89-year-old Deng can no longer write but can walk 50 steps; the 88-year- old Chen can write but can walk only 30 steps. Says the source...
...People feel they have to be secretive," saysGideonse. "You're in a fish bowl and everyone seeswhat you're doing and its prone to gossip...
...stars, or the press, or major industry movers -- no Michael Ovitzes, Barry Dillers or Steven Spielbergs. Instead, the horde consisted of the callused foot soldiers of Hollywood: agents, producers, entertainment lawyers, talent managers and screenwriters -- most of them in their 20s and 30s, all busily looking for clients, jobs, gossip, attention...
Those, like Dean Gill, who accept the responsibility of upholding that confidentiality should not be pilloried for their faithfulness, nor should their silence be viewed as license to fill the void with gossip and heresay...
...hardly not know -- given the amount of gossip that has lately dropped on Freud's closely guarded personal life -- that all the models are people with some specific relation to the artist as friends, lovers, daughters. But the nature of that relationship doesn't appear in the painting, and everyone is treated with the same relentless scrutiny of physical fact, so that a chin or an elbow acquires the same intensity, as painting, as a breast or a pubic mound. The results have much to do with modeling -- physical manipulation, as though the body were being reconstructed in the medium...