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Word: gossiper (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hilariously original satire on the closed-in sensibilities of Tuna's God-fearing Christians doesn't miss any of the familiar small town cliches: bigotry, hypocrisy, xenophobia, catty gossip, and the usual repressed instincts lurking under propriety. Even death in this tumbleweed town is a cause for excitement. Pearl Burris, the canincidal matron with a taste for strychnine stands in the funeral home, admiring the "lovely-looking corpse" of Judge Buckner, her long-ago Romeo, found dead in a Dale Evans one-piece swimsuit. Meanwhile, the latest word from Nadine's mother is that Nadine has run away again...

Author: By Hein Kim, | Title: Greater Hilarity Provides Raucous Relief | 10/18/1985 | See Source »

...Shaughnessy Heckler a "promotion" to Ambassador to Ireland. Her first reaction was to call the job "a nice one--for someone else." Only after a 50-minute meeting with the President did she accept. Reagan then stood beside a grim Heckler at a press conference to denounce the "malicious gossip" that he had dumped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cabinet: Irish Eyes Unsmiling | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

...public Hudson was summed up by a list of his performances. In private, he had to live by a double standard that seemed, in the last few years, to make him cynical and even resentful. From the moment he attracted enough attention to be noticed by gossip columnists, he had to lie to hide the inescapable fact that he was attracted to men rather than women. In 1955, when a scandal magazine threatened to expose his sexual preference, Universal arranged a hasty marriage of convenience with Henry Willson's secretary Phyllis Gates. Divorce followed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock Hudson: 1925-1985: The Double Life of an AIDS Victim | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

...verifying the broad | outlines of the scandal that the political implications for the French government became grave. The country's most respected newspaper, Le Monde was also an early and fervent supporter of Socialist President Francois Mitterrand. Suddenly the Elysee Palace could no longer dismiss the charges as mere gossip or yellow journalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Few Words From Gorge Profonde | 10/7/1985 | See Source »

...walked out on me about five years ago," he says, adding "thank God. I didn't say thank God then, of course, but I do now." He currently shares a house in north London with his first wife Hilary and her third husband. This unconventional menage has occasioned much gossip and speculation. Amis claims the arrangement is simply practical, convenient and mutually agreeable. He is obviously fond of "Hilly," to whom Stanley and the Women is dedicated, not only as the mother of their three children but as a new and trusted friend: "I feel, in a strange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Roughing Up the Gentle Sex Stanley and the Women | 9/30/1985 | See Source »

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