Word: paparazzis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even the beings that have become extinct usually have approximate, living counterparts that Attenborough and his camera crews can pursue, as they snoop, like scientific paparazzi, on the private lives of all creatures great and small. Probably never has any program shown so many forms of courtship and copulation: millipedes writhing in combinations too complicated to comprehend, goggle-eyed newts climbing atop each other, fish defying the hazards of nature to bring sperm to egg, frogs singing hoarse epithalamiums in ponds and swamps. Only fast-flying swifts, which mate on the wing, seem able to escape the prying lens...
...sacred geese warned that invading Gauls were climbing to the top of the Capitol, had Rome heard so much cackling as it did over the Taylor-Burton affair. Taylor worked and played with Burton during the day, then came home to Fisher at night, all in full view of paparazzi. One day, Fisher recounts, "she brought Burton to the villa. Burton immediately went into some kind of act. He turned to Elizabeth and growled, 'Who do you love?' Terrified, Elizabeth looked at me and then at him and said, 'You.' 'That's the right...
...gathered for the annual wheeling and movie dealing at the industry's premier film festival. High-rolling producers like Richard Zanuck still vied for choice tables at sidewalk cafés along the Boulevard de la Croisette, while aspiring starlets jousted for the attention of the camera-toting paparazzi. But Variety summed up the atmosphere in the headline: LACK OF ZEST AT CANNES FILM FEST...
Alas for the lass, Di's sudden fame as a reigning beauty has only intensified the paparazzi-style photographic coverage of her and Charles. Two French photographers were detained last week for trespassing on the grounds of Prince Charles' country house in Gloucestershire, where the couple were thought to be spending the weekend. For the cameramen, the first crocuses mean only one thing: If spring is near, can Di in a swimsuit be far behind...
...only the beginning. Fleet Street's overheated tabloids, used to concocting royal "romances" on the scantiest of evidence-a day at the races with Lady Camilla Fane, a chat at the polo grounds with Secretary Jane Ward-regularly made up quotes and printed rumors. Diana was ambushed by paparazzi while riding in her car and reduced to tears. Finally, a story in the Sunday Mirror alleged that she had been trysting with the Prince on the royal family's private train. That was the last straw. Her mother, the Honorable Mrs. Shand-Kydd, fired off a letter...