Word: gossipeer
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...rumors about the sex lives of other politicians, but none have appeared quite as annoyed by the innuendos as Vice President George Bush. For weeks there were whispers in Washington that various news organizations were preparing stories on the Republican presidential contender's supposed romantic affairs. Finally the scurrilous gossip broke into print two weeks ago. Bush lieutenants accused the aides of Senate Minority Leader (and rival Republican White House hopeful) Bob Dole of spreading the rumors; Dole's people in turn charged Bush's staffers with sowing stories about how they had slung the mud. As the rumors about...
...privately pressing for compromise"? Madison turned to the editorial page. There George Shrill, his favorite neoroyalist columnist, was quoting Thucydides in the original Greek to argue that the 13 states needed the firm hand of a minor German princeling as monarch to quell "the unseemly clamor of mobocracy." A gossip item on the entertainment page provided Madison with his only chuckle of the morning: a Harrisburg film producer claimed to have signed Ben Franklin to portray God in an upcoming comedy...
Knowledge of the underlying tension at the Fed led many to speculate last week that Volcker had been squeezed out of his job. The outgoing Fed chairman tried to squelch the gossip at President Reagan's press conference announcing the Greenspan appointment. Said Volcker: "I had no feeling that I was being pushed." On the other hand, Treasury Secretary James Baker muddied the waters slightly with an assertion that several attempts had been made "at my level" to get Volcker to stay on for a third term. The implication could be -- and was -- drawn that Reagan himself had declined...
...only a star -- not a star kept alight by regular work and appearance, but a star who exists according to the self-perpetuating mechanics of stardom." In this grand scheme, his notoriety as a womanizer is of small consequence -- a titillating false trail to keep the gossip press yapping. So is acting, at least in the conventional sense of the word. Performing is something that Beatty, whom Thomson calls a man "doubting and growing querulous . . . at the advisability of the whole pretense," must infrequently and reluctantly do in order to secure a larger, much more complex and devious...
...America. Most Americans would prefer to read about Elvis Presley's ghost than about South Africa or Nicaragua, and those who feel uncomfortable indulging in such nonsense are overjoyed at the arrival of a respectable scandal, at the opportunity to turn The New York Times into a hotbed of gossip...