Word: gossips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political reporter from Washington, London Correspondent Lansing Lament says that this week's cover story on Britain's Prince Charles was his toughest assignment yet. "I had to become an instant Welsh historian and an amateur genealogist of the royal family." He also had to become a gossip columnist of sorts. In London discotheques and at private parties, he collected scraps of anecdotes from sources within the royal circle. Those scraps, he says, "helped immensely to illuminate the human side of that aloofly detached institution known as the British monarchy. Once the pieces were assembled, a mosaic...
...Monica Vitti lived in separate apartments with a connecting interior staircase, until Antonioni won an annulment and the two were married. In less sophisticated circles, extramarital relationships are also common and accepted. "You want to know which of your friends are living together," says a Milan doctor, "not for gossip or to spread scandal, but to know how to address invitations to your parties...
...sponsors were disgruntled over Previn's outside commitments, notably his romance with the London Symphony Orchestra. Another problem seems to have been Previn's mod, madcap ways. His romps in blue jeans through the city's nightspots with Mia Farrow have been amply recorded by local gossip columnists. For his part, Previn is outraged. "The town is musically wide-open for new things," he said, "but the orchestra is run by the most conservative group of people I've ever seen, even in cartoons...
...CURIOUS (YELLOW). Yes, yes, this is the movie everyone is talking about, but, as in all gossip, things tend to get exaggerated in the retelling. To set the record straight: the drama is nonexistent, the style derivative, the sociology boring and the sex a passionless fake...
...apotheosis of the Kennedy family has created whole new categories of national history, mythology and gossip. It started with Jack's rise to the presidency, and his death by an assassin's bullet in Dallas. It became even more tragic as Bobby reached for his brother's mantle, only to be cut down himself. It continued with the agonizing trial and conviction of Sirhan Sirhan, Bobby's assassin. It promises to grow with the senatorial prominence and presidential prospects of Ted Kennedy...