Word: gossipers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that makes Albright the steadiest and clearest voice on the Clinton foreign-affairs team. Her willingness to wield the big stick whenever the President needs to make a point, in contrast with the painful hedging often employed by Secretary of State Warren Christopher, has put her on the Washington gossip circle's short list of candidates for the Secretary's job if he is pushed into retirement after the midterm elections. "She is hot around here," says an Administration official. "A star," says another. "A crown jewel," chimes a third...
...company was already proving its entertainment value by midwifing many a rumor. West Coast gossip: deposed Warner Bros. music kingpin Mo Ostin would work with Geffen. East Coast gossip: Tina Brown, the editor of the New Yorker, would be coming aboard. A spokeswoman who asked Brown about the rumor received the response...
...Harbus News, the weekly student newspaper at the Business School, got wind of the rumors and was trying to decide whether or not to include a story about the pool in its weekly campus gossip section...
Sometimes they sound like catty old fishwives. But this is a very male form of gossip -- verbal machismo. With their edgy patter, the guys test themselves, their friends, their victims; every conversation is a pop quiz with life on the line. And when they do shut up, it's often to blow someone away, or do drugs, or sink into edgy pensiveness. In Tarantino's film there are no comfortable silences...
...know all this? Gossip, malicious rumor, purloined notes from a secret meeting? Actually, no. Just open the most recent issue of Perspective to page four, and read Sarah Song's Introspective entitled "Why Do You Have to Get All Racial Reading the Introspective is always a treat for postmoderns like us, given our love of self-referentiality. But Why Do You Have To Get All Solipsistic...