Word: gossiper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Delicious and, like amphetamine candy, addictive. One gobbles up the testimony in Edie, culled by Jean Stein and George Plimpton from interviews with some 250 people who crossed paths or swords with the poor little rich girl. An awful fascination obtains to the book's elegant gossip. See Norman Podhoretz, editor of Commentary and hitman of the double-domed Right, dance wickedly on the grave of one of Edie's ancestors. Recall the night that Rock Star Jim Morrison paid sexual obeisance to Jimi Hendrix on the stage of Steve Paul's nightclub, the Scene. Watch Warhol...
...title refers to this false moral leader. Karsten Bernick, and his business cohorts, who pursue personal profits under the banner of working for the common good. They are supported by their equally hypocritical wives, members of an aid society for fallen women who are more dedicated to scandal gossip than to charity...
...even bigger cause for gossip in Mexico City is the huge, five-house compound that the outgoing President is building for his family on a hill overlooking the capital. Cynics have labeled the complex the "dog hill," a reference "to a Lopez Portillo remark that he would "fight like a dog" to defend the shrinking value of the Mexican peso...
...without rancor. There was plenty of pain for husband and wife, but also a parade of fascinating people. Randall Jarrell visited, slim, elegantly dressed, talking like a hillbilly; he twanged out such expressions as "Gol-ly!" and "Ba-by Doll!" Blackmur's wife Helen kept Princeton abuzz with gossip because she so openly scorned the role of faculty wife. When her husband told her that he had invited T.S. Eliot to dinner, she said, "Tell him to bring his own chop." During an erratic ride to a local restaurant, Edmund Wilson criticized the driving of Allen Tate: "Thank...
Vinogradov, 44, is now working on a ballet about the life of Charlie Chaplin. He intends to invite Maurice Béjart to stage it in Leningrad. The gossip is that Vinogradov was brought into the Kirov five years ago to liven things up and keep the younger generation of dancers interested. Vinogradov is a snappy dresser who likes wide pinstripes or a modified cowboy look. He seems to emerge from a Soviet equivalent of gilded youth, cosmopolitan, familiar with the latest trends in all the arts. His choreography is similar to that of several young Americans and Europeans...