Word: gossipeer
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...alarms have also proven to grist for the mills of some social anthropologists in the House. "If creates a lot of good gossip to see who comes out with whom" in the early morning, said Eric D. Grunchaum...
This is the sort of book one savors, a few pages at a time, over a period of days. It is a fascinating conversation; Bunuel's narrative style is as felicitous as was is life, a life rich in experience and dreams. His perceptions, his gossip, his portrait of his time reveal him to have been not only the artistic genius we find in his films, but a charming personality of deep sensitivity and conviction...
...issued forth like dispatches from some ancient war: Bob has been born again; Bob's Christianity has waned and lapsed; Bob is searching for his roots in Judaism. The news was confusing; so were the records, like Slow Train Coming, that were issued in the wake of the gossip. Dylan's songs of faith managed to be reverent and uncommitted at the same time, as if, by singing to the listener, he was also trying to convince himself and calm his restless soul...
...best remembered for an illusion. To impress Catherine with the prosperity that he had brought to her subjects, he is said to have built handsome fake villages all along the route of her tour through southern Russia in 1787. Historians doubt this tale, which they blame on malicious court gossip, yet there is something about the idea of "Potemkin villages" that lingers in the memory as a symbol of political craft...
James Q. Wilson shattuck Professor of Government is no stranger to gossip about high-level administrative positions. When he was an up-and-coming 39-year-old scholar in 1970 for instance. Wilson's name was circulated in lists of candidates for the Harvard presidency. And shortly after that, Wilson was reported to be one of the leading candidates to replace Dean of the Faculty John T. Dunlop the labor economist who left to join the Nixon Administration...