Word: gossipping
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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...
Wrongheaded and tortuous as this Merchant sometimes is, the updating is witty and apt. The "news of the Rialto" becomes fodder for a pair of gossip reporters on a happy-talk TV newscast. Shylock's trial is presided over by a mumbling, superannuated judge who could have stepped right out of Court TV. With a few exceptions -- Elaine Tse's overwrought Portia, for instance -- the actors strike a nice balance between Shakespeare's poetry and Sellars' stunt driving. For the rest of us, it's a wild ride...
...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...