Word: gossipeer
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...their supplies from a number of sources-meat from one distributor, fish and seafood from another, produce from still another. Sanford sensed the need for an all-in-one service that would provide a complete line of foods-from goose to mousse. To get a grasp of the gossip and personalities in the industry that he had chosen, he bought three years' back issues of trade publications and studied them from cover to cover...
...predictable boredom: The Gift Horse sold 300,000 copies in Germany. Like Puccini's Tosca, Hilde Knef has lived for art and love, but like Brecht's Ginny Jenny she now casts a cold eye on her follies and grandeur. Don't expect gossip, though. Knef writes as she acts, with reckless vitality, and her book has all the choke-ups, flounderings and magnificent surprises of a great tirade...
...allowed to work together, teaching and subtly competing with one another. Older children are sometimes assigned to help younger ones. Each pod's six teachers (one for every 41 kids) are free to cruise from child to child, prodding, checking the finished work, combatting the gloom or gossip that often derails preadolescent concentration...
...also appears that the vote on Kissinger was occasioned by an intricate and, at times, vicious gossip game which has long been a part of the Cambridge-Washington circuit. Since last May-when a dozen senior Faculty members visited the White House for an on-the-record conversation with Kissinger in which they denounced the President's decision to invade Cambodia-one of the most publicly effective objections to national policy has been the opposition of Kissinger's most eminent colleagues. But within government and Washington society, one of Kissinger's most potent weapons is a widespread impression that Harvard...
...tribulations of the hero were almost unendurable for the reader; the viewer, like a tourist, can only survey degradation held at arm's length. But One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich does occasionally convey a tragic sense of life discarded by politics: in the high, empty gossip of the Muscovite prisoners; in the pathetic scramble for a few shreds of tobacco; in the epic wasteland of ice and snow. More illuminating than either the performances or the screenplay is Sven Nykvist's Arctic photography, shot in the glacial reaches of Norway. Long a cinematographer for Ingmar...