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...Rumor has it that Boston Red Sox lefty pitcher Bruce Hurst is ready to skip town. Despite the competitive offer from the Old Towne Team, the 18-game winner and best Sox southpaw in decades is leaning toward accepting an offer from the San Diego Padres. San Diego...

Author: By Theodore D. Chuang, | Title: Relax Bruce; Boston Says, 'Don't Do It' | 12/6/1988 | See Source »

Even Boston Garden is under siege. The rumor is that the people with the TNT are actually Bruins and Celtics fans who just want a new Garden...

Author: By Theodore D. Chuang, | Title: Relax Bruce; Boston Says, 'Don't Do It' | 12/6/1988 | See Source »

...most of the way there is little disagreement. Both books candidly discuss the child's unripe screen sexuality, which also seemed to bother the Roman Catholic League of Decency. In 1937 a priest who had been sent to investigate informed the Temple family: "The rumor is, Shirley is a midget." Convinced she was merely a talented minor, he departed. Then Graham Greene weighed in, during his tenure as film critic for the British magazine Night and Day: "In Captain January she wore trousers with the mature suggestiveness of a Dietrich: her neat and well-developed rump twisted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Iron Whim CHILD STAR: by Shirley Temple Black SHIRLEY TEMPLE: AMERICAN PRINCESS by Anne Edwards Morrow | 11/14/1988 | See Source »

...exile in Hawaii, falls into the morbid subbranch of literature that Joyce Carol Oates has dubbed pathography. As such, it is a book with notable flaws. Seagrave, whose previous works include a biography of China's legendary Soong sisters, writes with glum prosecutorial fury, treating as credible any rumor of lurid conduct -- Imelda's alleged lesbian orgies, for example -- that helps his cause. When venturing into broader areas, like Washington's postwar foreign policy in the Far East, the author lapses into a crude historical revisionism, rejecting as paranoiac fancy any suggestion that leftist + insurgencies along the Pacific Rim might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mercenary Monsters From Manila THE MARCOS DYNASTY | 11/14/1988 | See Source »

...said she thought the drinking incident was "a rumor blown way out of proportion." She said, "[The woman] wasn't as sick as everyone thought...

Author: By Rebecca A. Jeschke, | Title: Citystep Bar Closed Early Due to Illness | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

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