Word: paparazzis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what about the pictures? Well, anyone who admits to bringing a camera to Primal Scream has more to be ashamed of than you do. In the end, however, what emerges from the film accumulated by the Primal Paparazzi is a record of the streakers' triumph--their indifference to their audience's attempts to trap them as trophies to be tucked away in a drawer and pulled out on lonely nights. So if you're afraid that your beautiful bouncing body could end up violated, processed and produced, only to be downloaded off the Internet by some 13-year...
None of the year's mass responses could hold a candle in scope and complexity to the astonishing grief inspired by Princess Diana's car-accident death, of course. (There were even spin-off mass responses of rage toward the paparazzi, who trailed her car into the Paris tunnel, and of generosity toward the charities the princess sponsored.) But other major displays of widespread feeling occurred in the sorrow at the death of Mother Teresa, the anger at both verdicts in the Boston "au pair trial" of Louise Woodward, and the celebration at the birth of the McCaughey septuplets...
...Elaine Showalter exposes the enormous harm done by the recovered-memory syndrome as it was applied to everything from multiple personalities to intrafamilial sex-abuse cases, in which abuses "remembered" never occurred. Showalter also notes that hysterias tend to produce scapegoats, which was borne out by the Princess Diana paparazzi hunt. As gratifying as it may have been for people to find a target of blame, most journalists recognize that the difference between the paparazzi and legitimate news photographers is roughly...
...Paul's Cathedral in 1981? ("The hell with it, I just can't go through with this!") What if he had left Diana at that altar? No wedding, therefore no years of misery? On the other hand, no Wills and Harry? No bulimia, no "New" Diana? No Dodi? No paparazzi? No crash...
Second Car Theory Speeds Up Fiat? Or ghost car? A newly released sketch of the Diana crash site suggests there were more than just paparazzi at the scene...