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...aristocrat, the goddaughter of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Cornelia Cochrane Churchill Guest, 19, the youngest child of a socially prominent family, grew up on Long Island and in Palm Beach and New York City. She spent 1982 as a debutante, and all year long the New York gossip journalists mentioned her in print, often dusting off a quaint epithet: deb of the year. "I don't get tired of it," she says, having finished her eggs and her Tab and three more cigarettes cadged from a waiter. "I'm honored...
Maura has pursued a rock-music career with some seriousness, and works full time at Rupert Murdoch's New York Post as a gossip reporter. Both girls are swaddled in red. Out front, Cornelia's mother C.Z. has arrived, dressed in black. C.Z. is a gardening columnist for the Post...
...epitomized by the 56-year-old National Enquirer (circ. 5 million). The Enquirer and its imitators, including the Globe, Star and National Examiner, feverishly mine such exotic "news" as people biting snakes, unimaginably obese couples losing hundreds of pounds, clergymen having visions of aliens or ghosts, and almost any gossip involving the Kennedy family...
...battle with the feminists, his Pulitzer Prize-winning later books (Armies of the Night and The Executioner's Song), and his stabbing of his second wife have all contributed to the veil of mystery and doubt surrounding him. Hilary Mills does an excellent job of clearing away the gossip and rumors and presents an orderly, well-documented, thoughtful chronicle of Mailer's life through which one begins to understand "what makes Norman...
...involves a hay field, a coal mine or a sweatshop, but a field for social intercourse. Psychologist Abraham Maslow defined work as a hierarchy of functions: it first provides food and shelter, the basics, but then it offers security, friendship, "belongingness." This is not just a matter of trading gossip in the corridors; work itself, particularly in the information industries, requires the stimulation of personal contact in the exchange of ideas: sometimes organized conferences, sometimes simply what is called "the schmooze factor." Says Sociologist Robert Schrank: "The workplace performs the function of community...