Word: gossiper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...STORY of the Washington punch is one of many in Halberstam's ledger; he is, of course, the Olympic anecdote champion. No one gets the gossip he gets--the recruiters visiting Bill Walton's mom and dad, the notorious Marvin "Bad News" Barnes taking off on another binge, the team trainer enduring the petty humiliations. Halberstam traveled the entire season with the Blazers and it shows. He knows the patterns of big league life--the hotels, the planes, the soap operas (both televised and intramural)--and the reader's appreciation of the game is richer for it. The basketball story...
...they stop making their art and start talking about it. "The artist is a damned liar," he wrote adding, "Never trust the artist. Trust the tale." Lawrence, of course, was right. When a Dick Cavett coaxes a writer in front of the camera for a half-hour of high gossip, the writer often turns into a sly little prevaricator. Or when a Herbert Mitgang lets an author expatriate about his oeuvre in balanced prose you know no one speaks in... Writers should not be invited to "ideal" dinner parties. They ought to stay home and write...
...that gossip is usually an instrument with which people unconsciously evaluate moral contexts. That's bunk. Gossip is a conscious act and should be described as a socially acceptable form of aggression...
...being bitchy, gossiping? You jest. We never gossip. We merely exchange useful information...
...White House and State seem to spend more time dispensing nasty rumors about each other than they devote to policy. For a month, reports have had either Haig or Allen, or both, about to be fired, and others moved. Reagan was reduced to blaming those who published the gossip rather than trying to throttle the original sources...