Word: gossipeer
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Marcel Proust wrote great gossip. His epic novel, A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time), is artful celebrity journalism about the beautiful people of Paris in the early 20th century. This was also when movies came of age; and the novel's shuffling of tenses, from present to past to conditional, has its film equivalent in the flashback--the lightning stroke of emotional teleportation that brings a memory instantly, poignantly, to the mind...
...world. Prayer season lasted all year, and I was fascinated by the fervor of my peers. Any cause for anxiety--tests, games, dates --was a chance to invoke Jesus. Up North, if I had seen a group of girls clutched together and whispering, it was a clear sign of gossip. Here it was a prayer circle, and there were boys in it too, holding hands, heads down, powerfully silent. To an outsider who had yet to make many friends, the prayer circles had some compelling advantages. If you aimed your point of entry correctly, you could hold hands with...
...every other weekend. You may find yourself going back only for summer and winter breaks, and having to make other arrangements for Thanksgiving, Spring Break and all the other gaps in the calendar. You will miss your family and your friends, and may become out of touch with the gossip back home. I recently discovered, for example, that one of my 21-year old high school friends and her boyfriend had been shopping for a wedding ring, while all my other friends who stayed in the area for college had been in the loop about this for a few weeks...
Screen culture is a world of constant flux, of endless sound bites, quick cuts and half-baked ideas. It is a flow of gossip tidbits, news headlines and floating first impressions. Notions don't stand alone but are massively interlinked to everything else; truth is not delivered by authors and authorities but is assembled by the audience. Screen culture is fast, like a 30-sec. movie trailer, and as liquid and open-ended as a website...
Lounging on blankets and sipping wine last Tuesday at midnight, a dozen seniors in the Lowell House courtyard bantered about the NBA, gossip and plans for the Last Chance Dance...