Word: gossipeer
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...gossip that goes on at these things that bothers me. How could I feel superior to people if I don't find out what they're doing? It's the poor manner in which I was forced to go about it, squeezed from corner to corner catching glimpses of the past...
...after all, accusing Boggs of anything extraordinary (every office has its adulterers); rather, we are crushed to find him ordinary. And it is not so much that the national pastime has been scarred by scandal as that scandal sometimes seems to be the national pastime. In our appetite for gossip, we tend at times to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our ideals we have consumed, and we have not been enlarged by the feasts, but only diminished. Let the harassment fit the crime, one is tempted to conclude...
Bernstein added that there has been "an unfortunate growth in the area of gossip and celebrity journalism...reporting is really the last priority for the networks...
...years since he helped topple a President, Carl Bernstein has become famous more as a celebrity than as a journalist. He has been pictured on the gossip pages with a procession of notable women. He was portrayed by Dustin Hoffman in All the President's Men, based on the Watergate book he co- authored with Bob Woodward, and, as a fictional character, by Jack Nicholson in Heartburn, based on a cleverly barbed novel by his former wife, Nora Ephron. All the while, he was waging an off-and-on struggle with a project that he described to friends...
...money into the expedition pot.) No doubt she also quelled some of the grousing from the Old Guard of male Himalayan climbers that women aren't equipped for extreme-high-altitude climbing, complaints that have subsided for the most part into gossip about the undeniable problems that love affairs cause on expeditions. (Allison herself does some grousing on this subject, and she says that one of the reasons her 1988 expedition was successful was that everyone understood the concept of delayed gratification...