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Buresh, a former bureau chief for Newsweek, will teach a module on the increasing role of women in the media and will also examine the role of gossip in political press coverage...
Inside Sport, may reap even more profit from its February swimsuit issue. Luckily its pictures of Dallas star Charlene Tilton have drawn the attention of a gossip tabloid, and a few trashy articles about an actress may be all that's necessary for Inside Sport to sell more copies than it has in years...
...bought into Louisville publishing with money from the estate of Mary Lily Flagler, his second wife. The Judge was rumored to have killed Mary Lily, but there was never any evidence that would support a criminal charge. Time and again, Bingham prefers the rumor. It not only makes better gossip, but it fits in with her male-bashing thesis. It also allows her to note that the Binghams got their start with a woman's money...
...Gossip columnist Liz Smith summed it up when she wrote, "Even if Trump is the truest, most flamboyant child of Mammon yet produced at this waning moment of the 20th century, I like his style." New York Times architecture critic Paul Goldberger took a graver view: "He has yet to commission a really serious work of architecture. If he has a style, it is flashiness. It's a malady of the age. Trump just represents it the most." Characteristically, Trump responded by sneering that Goldberger was unqualified to judge his buildings because he wore cheap suits...
...happier world of glitz and gossip columns, Trump attracted a lot of attention when he bought the New Jersey Generals football team in 1983 for a reported $8 million (Trump says he paid only $4 million) and tried to spur the fledgling U.S. Football League into full competition with the powerful National Football League. Trump not only invested heavily in college stars like Herschel Walker and Doug Flutie (who cost him $5 million or more) but also persuaded the league to sue the N.F.L. for antitrust violations. One league member recalls Trump saying that "everything he had been involved with...