Word: gossipping
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...course there is a place in the world for fashion and gossip magazines. I'm not trying to take the moral high-ground; I'm just surprised--shocked even--that the editor of a magazine that ran articles like "This Cat Has Nine Wives" and "How Gangs and Sororities are the Same" is now the force behind articles on professional groupie Pamela Des Barres and damaged-but-still-insufferable Natalie Imbruglia. And there's a whole new generation of 14-year-olds who hate high school and probably Imbruglia and long for something real to hang...
...before one's eyes in a flaring crimson robe with a velvet curtain behind him, one hand on his breast, looking like some 16th-arrondissement Don Giovanni protesting the sincerity of his intentions. The pairing of the New Orleans siren and her reputed lover set off a frenzy of gossip, and Sargent, more than a little unnerved, presently decamped to London...
...college students--especially during the 1960s sexual revolution. But it may have been too good to be true. While few question Mead's brilliance or integrity, subsequent research showed that Samoan society is no more or less uptight than any other. It seems Mead accepted as fact tribal gossip embellished by adolescent Samoan girls happy to tell the visiting scientist what she wanted to hear...
...delay in receiving new developments. For example, it is said that European music is stuck in the '80s. Though perhaps we're not a full decade behind, the Quad is surely last to be hit by Harvard's emerging trends. It takes us longer to receive University mail, hear gossip and contract flu epidemics that strike the River weeks before. When things eventually arrive on our distant shores, they are never quite the same as the original product. For example, Temple Bar can't compare to Grafton Street any better than Euro Disney can compete with prototype theme-parks...
...shuttle that's been around the longest: A 1987 shuttle is now used as an alternate vehicle when two or more buses are down. (If shuttle walls could speak, this wily veteran shuttle would probably have its fair share of gossip...