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...gossip linking Galina with Boris seemed credible because of her longtime association with Soviet entertainers. She was once married to a circus strongman and animal trainer. Galina is also rumored to have been friendly with the head of the Soviet State Circus, Anatoli Kolevatov, who is being investigated for extorting bribes from performers. Diamonds and foreign currency worth more than $1 million were reportedly found in Kolevatov's Moscow apartment...
...playful cat-and-mouse game, as the press ferrets out secrets, while arguing high-mindedly that the real winner is the public. This is true only when the public is learning what it had a right to know and was not being told. The rest is headlines, titillation and gossip, whose place in journalism is less entitled to such solemn defense...
According to Nigel Dempster's keyhole narrative, the figurehead has lived "a life unfulfilled." Whether she might have been happier as Prime Minister or nanny is unspecified; certainly she could have had a more gratifying Boswell. Dempster, 40, is a gossip columnist for the London Daily Mail, and throughout, if Margaret is the Disappointed Princess, he is the Old Pretender, stating the loftiest intentions, then betraying them with yet another innuendo...
...article in the party daily Trybuna Ludu accused some priests of involvement "in provocative and offensive political activity." That criticism was echoed three days later in a Radio Warsaw broadcast that charged members of the Catholic clergy with acting "irresponsibly." Specifically, they were criticized for spreading messages and "gossip" during their pastoral visits with the estimated 4,000 Solidarity union members and sympathizers who have been held in detention camps since the Dec. 13 crackdown...
...even gossip can be interesting if presented in a lively and humorous style. Ehrlichman, however, writes as if his imagination were chained to a post. His plodding exposition is replace with mixed metaphors, clichers, and spelling errors--its only humor is bitter and sarcastic. A sample of the Ehrlichman...