Word: gossipers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...powerful case can be made that in a society heavily mulched with gossip journalism, novelized movies, campaign biographies, airline magazines, the printed bafflegab of lawyers and academics, interviews with pious athletes and pouting ads by misunderstood oil companies, the affliction called writer's block is insufficiently widespread. But no wretch who has ever tried to write anything will be surprised to learn that Nancy Isaac Kuriloff, a therapist who works in Los Angeles and deals with fear of writing, has plenty of clients...
...Rights Amendment, which Reagan just as ardently opposes. Second Daughter Patti, 27, attracted attention by going around with Bernie Leadon, former banjo player with the Eagles. And when Younger Son Ronald, 22, became a dancer with Manhattan's Jeffrey II Company, the training troupe for the Jeffrey Ballet, gossip columnists began raising eyebrows and talking of family hostilities. "How embarrassed is Ronald Reagan [really] about his ballet-dancing son?" leered the New York Post. "Answer: plenty...
...subjects the paper tended to neglect in the past. The lower left-hand corner is reserved for short, sprightly yarns; one last week cheekily examined the rich man's version of the box radios so popular with street people. The new page even has a rather tepid corporate gossip column called "Shop Talk" (who is on the fast track at General Motors and similar tidbits). Despite a year's preparation, the first week of the second front did not give readers a clear idea of what kinds of stories to expect...
...agitation and propaganda point), which is festooned with slogans and piled high with party literature. But when local residents stop in to study the bulletin board and ask questions of the official on duty, the chances are they are interested in new regulations that might affect their lives or gossip about apartments about to become available...
Coatless, tieless and triumphantly clutching his Best Actor Oscar, Dustin Hoffman could not resist a post-award press conference zinger at TV gossip Rona Barrett, who had dismissed Best Movie Kramer vs. Kramer as so much soap suds. Said he, spotting Barrett in the press crush: "Well, the soap opera won." Kramer swept five major prizes in the 52nd Academy Awards show. "I'm trying to hear the question over my heartbeat," cooed Meryl Streep, Best Supporting Actress as Ms. Kramer. Complimented on her Trigère gown, Streep, who is Mrs. Don Gummer in real life, blushingly swept...