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...hours of gossip and hand-shaking marked the transition the city always goes through during the early summer of a municipal election year: from one concerned largely with policymaking to one dominated by political fanfare. That transformation was best described Wednesday night by David Wylie, a CCA councilor up for re-election, who said, "the council has acted very responsibly in the past year," which ended when the body adjourned for the summer on Monday night. But he cautioned that when the group reconvenes--for a special meeting in August and regularly after Labor Day--little will be accomplished...
...member City Girls Rockin' with Menudo fan club chapter in New York. Hers is one of several dozen groups in the city and 700 in the world. "They send you rules for a fan club," Lopez says. "You must visit hospitals and churches. There must be no gossip or fighting among the girls...
...risk--of a live performance, And the infrequent bumbles are more than made up for by the group's strongest pieces. One standout is the Melrod-penned Shakespearean soap opera called "Most Grievous Hospital," which is rendered in Elizabethan rhyming couplets from the introduction by a character named Gossip ("Enjoy the play, friends, Gossip now be gone. I'll change my costume quickly and return anon.") It continues through a brief and purposefully confusing ploy of divorces and jealousy--regular General Hospital fare--("Oh, woe, that I should unaraesthetized bear such pain") and through...
...Flaming" is another favorite hacker activity. To flame means to speak rapidly or obsessively on a variety of subjects both significant and trivial. Hackers flame by typing opinions, gossip and mad rantings into a computer file reserved as a community bulletin board. Those wanting to know what is on the mind of computerniks all over campus can call up the board on their terminals and read the latest flame. One recent public notice contained a rosy farewell message from the head of C.M.U.'s Computer Science Department, who explained that he was leaving the university...
Brown knew about this because he helped McCartney do it. This fact, like all else in the book, is presented with a tone of slightly mocking worldliness that sometimes cracks into cynicism. Yet The Love You Make is the best backstage Beatles book so far, full of deep-dish gossip, much of it brought together for the first time and some of it new. A good deal of the information is inherently dramatic and painful. Brown's compassionate recollection of Brian Epstein as a deliriously romantic, masochistic homosexual and erratic businessman who died of a drug overdose...