Word: gossiped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unfilmable Naked Lunch." Even this movie's producer called William S. Burroughs' 1959 novel that, and he was right. A gallimaufry of hallucinations, literary gossip and medical info, Burroughs' confession of a hipster junkie is its own X-rated movie, so vivid is its evocation of a mind gone bad, a soul shriveled. "Gentle reader," he writes, "the ugliness of that spectacle buggers description." Which Burroughs of course describes, in language both raw and heroically ironic. The novel is a detective story in which the private eye is desperate to forget, not learn, life's mysteries; or maybe...
...fired into him at the behest of business associates impatient with the slow return on their ; investment in his dream, is poignant. And ironic as well. Because before Siegel got around to reinventing Las Vegas, his most important project was reinventing himself. Far better known in the press and gossip of his glory days, the 1940s, as "Bugsy," he was perhaps the most famous mobster of his era. Not that he liked his colorful sobriquet (he tended to punch out people who used it in his presence) or his public identification as a hood (his preference was "sportsman...
...television cameras are making a circus out of it. This is not surprising; television is always the whipping boy of the so-called serious Americans. But, especially in this case, it is the print media which have turned this trial into a sham and grist for the daily gossip pages. In short, the print media's coverage of the William Kennedy Smith trial has been atrocious...
...sense, it's hard to tell because the subject was never discussed 20 years ago, it simply didn't exist in people's consciousness, it was snickering in back rooms and gossip and innuen-does and sly remarks, but no sort of open discussion," he remarks. "I think that has changed much for the better...
...have heard rumors of a successful weekend for the rugby team. Breakfast table gossip has it that the undefeated team made the final 16 of the national college tournament with a thrilling, come-from-behind, 16-15 victory last Sunday...