Word: gossiper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from power last year, but in spite of repeated promises, it was never disarmed. The provisional government has prosecuted only a few of the most notorious thugs. "It isn't easy to get rid of something as basic as the Macoutes," says Aubelin Jolicoeur, a Haitian journalist and former gossip columnist. The recent rampages have a signature style that has led many Haitians to suspect that elements of the Macoutes are involved: the late-night assaults, the beatings of entire families, the arbitrariness, the brutality...
...familiar with the esoteric pleasures of the most elite of the intellectual circles, those New York Times reporter William B. "Willie" Weesel knows so well. The group of us convenes with Willie every Friday morning for brunch and coffee at the U.N. commissary to chat over the latest gossip--the rising hemlines, perhaps, or the plunging deutchsmark...
Crime and conventional morality aside, the transmutation of base fame into gold does scratch at some deep nerve in the public psyche. Most observers would probably agree with Thomas Kerr, associate professor of business ethics at Carnegie-Mellon University, who would not condemn the "public for wanting titillating gossip" or the "media for giving the public what it wants." Yet people inevitably feel some unease because, as it is put by Eugene Secunda, New York University professor of advertising, marketing and media, "fame and infamy are often viewed in the same light...
Given the cloud of highly charged gossip that surrounded Markham from adolescence on (she was expelled from school in Nairobi for trying perhaps "to organize a revolt," and then married at 16), it is surprising that until the present volume, no one had answered such questions in a full-length biography. But although West with the Night was praised when it was first published in 1942, sales were not high, and after a few short stories based on her experiences, Markham gave up writing. Author Mary S. Lovell hotfooted it to Nairobi after reading the republished memoir and found...
...rich parents scoured Europe for bluer blood. Cassini is best known for being couturier to Jackie Kennedy ("I want all ((my outfits)) to be original and no fat little women hopping around in the same dress"), and his memoir of Camelot is lively. He also offers good gossip, recounting Aly Khan's sexual techniques or a little joke Zsa Zsa Gabor played on a lover. But the book's main charm is the author's portrait of himself as Playboy, Second Class -- a man who had to hustle his own pleasures and did so with gusto...