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...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Superlative Coverage | 11/23/1991 | See Source »

...metal bands that have renounced their raunchy roots and polished their music, if not their image. Gone are the crude lyrics and blaring wah-wah guitars that marked its sound in the mid-' 80s. Many of the tunes on Metallica could almost be called reflective, like Holier Than Thou: "Gossip is burning on the tip of your tongue/ You lie so much you believe yourself/ Judge not lest you be judged yourself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heavy Metal Goes Platinum | 10/14/1991 | See Source »

...dubbed him "that Virgin Mary in pants." In reality, Hoover was permanently on the take: he decorated his home at government expense, funneled royalties from his ghostwritten books into a private slush fund, accepted free vacations in Florida and California from toadying millionaires. Hoover had no qualms about using gossip about clandestine homosexual encounters for blackmail. Meanwhile, he was seen so often in the company of his deputy, Clyde Tolson, that stories constantly circulated that the two bachelors were lovers. (Gentry leaves unresolved the question of Hoover's homosexuality and generally is better at describing what the director did than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Emperor's Old Files | 10/14/1991 | See Source »

...yellow totem gown, a Nefertiti of the '90s. Or Linda Evangelista looking like a Scottish schoolgirl on the cover of Vogue. Or Christy Turlington gazing serenely from an ad for Calvin Klein's Eternity perfume. Naomi. Linda. Christy. They're everywhere. Vogue, Elle, feature pages, ad pages, gossip pages. Selling couture and catalogs, soap and sportswear. And during the fall fashion shows these three have sashayed their impossibly sleek, improbably long-legged frames down the runways in New York City, Paris and Milan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marketing Beauty and The Bucks | 10/7/1991 | See Source »

...that's often -- it's news. The fashion world quivers as her hair goes from dark brown to platinum blond to Technicolor red. Campbell's life and loves are chronicled as much as her face; her reputed affair with Robert De Niro has become a staple of the celebrity gossip pages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marketing Beauty and The Bucks | 10/7/1991 | See Source »

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