Word: gossips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intellectual content of Playboy is at least on a par with the pretentiously overstated content of a TIME Essay. The prurient appeal of an overripe foldout is no worse than the peekaboo enticement of gossip about "People." The humor of a Playboy cartoon is often more sophisticated than the cleverness of TIMEse...
Drop into a Peace Corps hangout in Delhi, or a resthouse in Nigeria, and chances are the conversation will run to gossip about other Volunteers, mingled with the latest half-despairing, half amused stories about the locals. Such talk is the stock-in-trade of the white man in the tropics, and to this extent at least, Peace Corps Volunteers are no different from other expatriates. What does distinguish their talk, however, is the thread of concern for the job that runs through it: there will be insistent questions about so and so's method of teaching irregular verbs...
...bachelor-he is separated, at least geographically, from his wife Marian, who still lives in Washington. His jaunty bow tie has been seen at Arthur-a discothèque that might well have been named for him -and his every date and dictum seem to end up in the gossip columns...
...rich Midwestern ghost town, whose remaining citizens have become tiny little slag heaps of humanity. The frustrated urge to flee has become the venomous urge to flail one another. They use one of the weapons of the weak-their tongues-and the air they breathe is incessant and malicious gossip. It takes a crime for anyone to become visible in Eldritch, and the play revolves around the trial of a woman who killed a presumed rapist...
...gave these millions? Speculation is divided, but among those mentioned most frequently are Campbell Soup, the Duponts, Bernard Baruch, and, perhaps less seriously, the C.I.A. Whoever it was, gossip has it that Princeton's president Robert Goheen convinced the anonymous donor to throw all his loot into one pile rather than spread it around. There are those who contend "Firm X" is still watching closely over the Woodrow Wilson School's progress...