Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Quayle will be pleased to discover that he has become President. The last homeless person in the U.S. will have found a permanent place to live, somewhere in Chicago, and the cure for AIDS will have come from a wildflower found in the jungles of Africa. A top item in Milestones: Elizabeth Taylor's marriage to Johnny Carson. The covers of the two winning magazines announced the arrival of aliens on earth and superbabies created through genetic engineering. "The kids did a tremendous job," says Patricia Raupers, district coordinator of gifted programs. "They developed some creative ideas under a tight...
Under this "declining balance system," points are deducted either for each item purchased in a-la-carte fashion or for an entire all-you-can-eat meal, depending on the dining hall and the college...
...Angeles the names often come from studios and talent agencies; in Washington, from government and politics; in Chicago, from local pro sports teams, although any item about talk hostess Oprah Winfrey will do; in St. Louis, from Busch brewery heirs; in Boston, from the corridors of the state house and city hall, the Kennedy clan and the remnants of the Cabot-and-Lowell Brahmin aristocracy. In every city there is an inevitable reliance on local TV personalities. A few elite names are good anywhere, anytime, whether they have done something recently or not. Elizabeth Taylor and Jackie Onassis and Barbra...
...million. Parsons and her rival, Hedda Hopper, between them appeared in practically every consequential newspaper in the nation. On the other hand, while there are many more competitors on the celebrity beat than in Winchell's or Hopper's heyday, they tend to be editorial copycats. Thus an item from Liz Smith or PEOPLE magazine or Entertainment Tonight gets picked up and trumpeted by dozens or even hundreds of publications and broadcasts...
...veteran film publicist terms today's gossip columnists "more professional than they used to be, more fact oriented, less careless, less reliant on hearsay." In Winchell's day, he notes, columnists ran more blind items in which no names were used, and thus were more apt to take a chance on a tip. Today's scribes are more likely to seek confirmation, though they will still rely on a hunch. Last fall Washington Times gossip writer Charlotte Hays heard that actress Kelly McGillis, who had signed for the season at the Shakespeare Theater at the Folger, was pregnant and would...