Word: gossipeer
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...intensity of the gossip reported in the press increased steadily. Because of the collapse of my effort to mediate in the Falklands, I was now more vulnerable than ever. A lifelong friend who is in a position to know called to say that there had been a meeting in the White House at which my future had been discussed. "Haig is going to go, and go quickly," James Baker was quoted by my friend as saying, "and we are going to make it happen...
Politicians live (and, as we know, sometimes die) by the press. The press lives by politicians. This symbiotic relationship is at the center of our national life. The relationship has always existed. Probably it came into being at about the same time as human speech, which permitted the first gossip to repeat the (suitably edited) sayings of the chief of the clan to the people in the next cave. It existed in America, an especially nourishing environment for all types of communication, before the Declaration of Independence...
...Heart without Henley's savory moonshine kick). Often in these works, nothing happens; usually, that is the point. In Horton Foote's Courtship virtually all of the "action," except for one chaste kiss, occurs offstage and is relayed to the audience as a Texas family's gossip. The play's teen-age sisters might be called Rosie and Gilda; they are as irrelevant to their small town's melodramas as Hamlet's foppish courtiers were to the royal carnage. Life is a soap opera they will be able to experience only vicariously...
...allies on our plans with respect to the neutron bomb and by the nature of my personality. The fanciful story about my thrusting a "20-page memorandum" into Reagan's hands as he returned from his swearing-in took root in the press and demonstrated once again that gossip is hardier than truth. Again I called up Meese. "Al," he said, "it's just newspaper talk. Don't pay any attention." Baker gave me the same advice...
...witnessed, and tried within the limits of legality and honor to help manage, was in the past. It had nothing whatever to do with my qualifications to be Secretary of State. I was willing to answer the questions that would be put to me, but not to gossip about a former President or to be brought so low that I would seek to demonstrate my fitness for my post, or certify my own decency, by joining in the hurling of anathema upon him. There are worse things than not being