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...weren't working at the Factory? Sure, Jackie O. was polite that time Andy took Colacello along as his date to a Christmas party, even shared her glass of Perrier. But she didn't mean it, calling Andy the next day to complain about his bringing a gossip columnist to real people's parties. Really. At least this time he didn't throw up in the sink, the way he did when Andy was with him at Halston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In The Heat of the Night | 8/13/1990 | See Source »

Giving away the ending of a movie or novel is considered very bad form. But for weeks Manhattan's literary gossip has been twittering with the news that John Updike's Rabbit at Rest, which will be published in October, concludes with the death of its hero. What's more, Updike himself has been fueling this story, both in a June speech at the American Booksellers' Association convention in Las Vegas and in the New York Times Book Review. How to explain all this fuss about the fate of an imaginary character? Well, Harry C. ("Rabbit") Angstrom first appeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rabbit Stew | 8/13/1990 | See Source »

Nelson Mandela's historic address to a joint meeting of Congress, George Bush's retraction of his no-new-taxes pledge, the savings and loan crisis -- none of these issues could hold Washington's attention for long last week. The topic dominating front pages and TV news broadcasts, gossip on the Metro and at the State Department was a fuzzy 83-minute black-and-white videotape played at the trial of Marion Barry. It showed the three-term mayor of the nation's capital rolling around on a bed in a downtown hotel room with a former girlfriend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marion Barry: I Guess You All Figured That I Couldn't Resist That Lady | 7/9/1990 | See Source »

According to Nye, "the diplomatic gossip has it that [Kohl] and Bush have already worked out" a compromise that would satisfy the Soviets. Such a compromise might include the continued presence of Soviet troops on East German soil, or massive West German payments to the Soviet Bloc...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: Four Decades After Marshall Plan, Kohl Promises Symbolism, Irony | 6/7/1990 | See Source »

...dumped William Shawn, editor of the New Yorker since 1952, barely a year after describing Shawn as one of the three most influential men in his life. Having been widely lambasted for letting Grace Mirabella learn of her 1988 ouster from Vogue through a TV report by gossip columnist Liz Smith, Si diligently informed Anthea Disney in person last year that she was through at Self -- by making a clumsy unannounced visit to her Connecticut home, where she was vacationing. Soon after Robert Bernstein resigned in November after 23 years as president of Random House, a seemingly orchestrated campaign portrayed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: A Search for Glitz | 6/4/1990 | See Source »

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