Word: gossips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Books by girls, especially those grown-up girls who get their diary jottings published under the guise of novels, should be read by other girls. The best of them have the quality of gossip-a mixture of fact and fantasy, malice and love, like those little confidences that were once whispered in Victorian dormitories. Edna O'Brien, who wrote The Lonely Girl (which became a smashing film as The Girl with the Green Eyes), does so well in this genre that the male reader feels like an eavesdropper. She seems to burble on in all innocence, but can take...
...There are no secrets in my life," Italian Actress Claudia Cardinale, 29, has been telling the gossip columnists right along. But last week, a couple did come out. For one thing, the eight-year-old boy whom she has constantly identified as her little brother, is her son by an unnamed father. For another, Claudia was secretly married in the U.S. last year to Producer Franco Cristaldi, 42, her longtime friend who has been seeking a church annulment of his first marriage in divorceless Italy...
Even before publication, Robert Daley's satirical roman à clef about a Great New York Newspaper set off much who's-who gossip in the city room of a Great New York Newspaper. Who, for example, is Paul Pettibon, the Paris bureau chief with the ego of a De Gaulle and a sense of insecurity to rival that of Charlie Brown's pal Linus? Who is Jack L. Banglehorster, the slow-moving, ruminative foreign editor who feels that his first duty is "to report the same news the opposition papers reported...
...Japanese Isuzu trucks to replace the British lorries it once assembled. Tobacco, once Rhodesia's principal source of foreign exchange, is now piling up in secret government warehouses-three of which are disguised as hangars on an unused Salisbury airfield. The government recently initiated a "Guard Against Gossip" campaign (nicknamed "GAG") warning Rhodesians not to discuss economic troubles with foreigners...
...your folder. You sit down, in silence. ing information on contraceptives and sex in general. "There is a vast difference between telling someone what might be appropriate and actually supervising it," he points out. "We are in favor of everyone knowing as much as possible, of getting the gossip channels filled with accurate information. After all, they can make their own decisions better than we can." Despite this philosophy, and despite any changes in the law, the UHS's ambivalent "everything-but" policy is likely to continue...