Word: gossipers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ashe had had leukemia, would reporter and editor have published the story? Maybe, in one paragraph. But not if Ashe had asked them not to. AIDS made it different. Irresistible. Juicy gossip. Red meat. When reporters pick up that scent, they are off the leash and baying through the woods. The Ashe affair makes a strong case for media loathing...
Ashe acquiesced to the inevitable. He made the TV rounds in the days after his AIDS announcement, and he kept his dignity -- not easy in an exercise in which the line between richly cartooned gossip and basic responsible journalism (who-what-when-where-how) all but dissolves. Television has a genius for the intimacies of personal-redemption chat. It formalizes the primitive newspaper gossip column into a ceremony and a sacrament. The Archpriestess Barbara Walters comes with producer and camera crew to hear confession. She is empowered to grant absolution on behalf of the American people, playing first Inquisitor, then...
Scaphio and Phantis slander the king in the Palace Paper--a gossip newspaper that makes scandalous assertions about him. The mysterious author of these starting revelations--about how the king bathes in rum punch and gets showered down by a garden hose--is the king himself, who desperately tries, under Scaphio and Phantis' coercion, to make a statement about his sense of humor...
...friendly conversations and gossip swapping that students share with their dining hall checkers leads many house residents--especially males--to come to think of their regular checkers as mother figures...
...distraction. At a time of anguish over Britain's national direction, a Hollywood-style cult of celebrity surrounding Queen Elizabeth II's offspring has endowed the royal clan with a more modern relevancy. The Queen's second son and his wayward wife provided everything in the way of gossip-page dramatics that their 1986 wedding seemed to herald. But in the end, the couple proved to be unsuitable for each other...