Word: gossips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...external world, yet are experienced as objective entities. These pseudo-objects are reifications of the fundamental structures of experience which are shared by men as a result of their socialization. Laing conceptualizes two of these structures as Them and Us. Them is the sense of shame, the dynamism behind gossip and scandal. An individual often acts not by his own values of feelings but by what he experiences as Their values, values outside him. Us is the sense of group loyalty. Groups depend on unified experience, on the internalization of common social modes of being in their members. This internalization...
Nubile Young Girls. Titillating though the published details were, le tout Paris concentrated its gossip on the high personages reportedly involved. Almost everyone seemed to know the name of the former Cabinet minister's wife, for instance. It all stimulated memories of the "Ballets Roses" organized during the late '50s by Andre Le Troquer, at the time President of the National Assembly. Le Troquer made a habit of wrapping nubile young girls in antique carpets and delivering the bundles to aging revelers. But that was a long time past. The choicest scandal is always the present scandal...
...Roth's books have sold well, but he has never really been controversial or had his apartment examined in gossip columns ("the smart East 80s ... very solid, no patterns"). Now that Alexander Portnoy has made him a celebrity, he is dodging fame with SalI ingeresque determination-which, of course, only draws more attention to him. He used to answer the phone, "Benito Cereno here."* Now he doesn't answer his phone at all, and he tends...
After the Las Vegas wedding?attended by 37 still cameras, 14 motion-picture cameras and seven writers?show business set in. "Hah!" chortled Sinatra's ex-wife Ava Gardner, "I always knew Frank would wind up in bed with a boy." The gossip columnists were scarcely kinder. The pair's every waking hour seemed to make the wire services. During the affair, when she lopped off her hair, Dali called it "mythical suicide." After the separation, her behavior seemed more of the same. She flew off to India with her flower-child sister Prudence* for a month of transcendental meditation...
...hides, sewed and ornamented his clothing, fashioned moccasins and snowshoes for him, and prepared him such delicacies as boiled buffalo hump, boiled unborn calf, and dried moose nose. If she had any drawback, it was galloping garrulity: contrary to stereotype, Indian women were constantly giving off streams of village gossip and household news...