Word: gossiped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hollywood's been good to Clinton, so it makes sense that the Clinton team would bend over backward to accommodate Hollywood at the Inaugural. But with more than 300,000 places to juggle, a few bruised egos were inevitable -- setting gossip columns abuzz with rumors of supposed slights and rebuffs. Kim Basinger and Robert De Niro, who stumped for the campaign, did not initially receive invitations. Kathleen Turner phoned asking to come but did not have her calls returned. When Geena Davis first offered to perform, same story. Bette Midler was asked to sing but -- good heavens! -- was not invited...
...words, and how often we use them to paper over embarrassment, or emptiness, or fear of the larger spaces that silence brings. "Words, words, words" commit us to positions we do not really hold, the imperatives of chatter; words are what we use for lies, false promises and gossip. We babble with strangers; with intimates we can be silent. We "make conversation" when we are at a loss; we unmake it when we are alone, or with those so close to us that we can afford to be alone with them...
...SITUATION THAT ARISES A MILlion times a day in offices around the world. An employee has something personal to tell a co-worker -- a confidence, a joke, a bit of gossip that might give offense if it were overheard. Rather than pick up the phone or wander down the hall, he or she simply types a message on a desktop computer terminal and sends it as electronic mail. The assumption is that anything sent by E-mail is as private -- if not more so -- than a phone call or a face-to-face meeting...
...that simple. The Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 prohibits "outside" interception of E-mail by a third party -- the government, the police or an individual -- without proper authorization (such as a search warrant). It does not, however, cover "inside" interception -- sneaking a peek at the office gossip's E-mail, for example. In the past, courts have ruled that interoffice communications were considered private only if employees had a "reasonable expectation" of privacy when they sent...
...realm of dessert, the only happening thing is tiramisu, which comes to us from Italy via a brief craze in Japan. Even our gossip has to be imported, since we lack homegrown equivalents of the topless, toe-sucking, dysfunctional royals...