Word: rumorings
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...about it, and that's something I aim to be as well." She has also become inured to claims that Cruise is gay: "It used to baffle me. And I got angry, because we were called liars and frauds. But now I laugh. At first you vehemently deny the rumors, and finally you just move on. I think that rumor's probably finished and there'll be a new one. I'm waiting...
...Berkeley students wrote a program that can, in less than 60 seconds, defeat the encryption scheme used by Netscape's Navigator software to conceal information such as credit card numbers in transactions over the Internet. (Rumor has it that the authors of the cracking program did their handiwork after watching the movie Hackers.) The security flaw stems from Netscape's use of a 30-digit binary "key" to decrypt such messages; the company has since released a new version using a 300-digit key which is significantly harder to defeat...
...Hollywood, meanwhile, the latest maybe-merger is hot-wiring the rumor industry and alarming many players. "It's a horrifying chain of events," says Cary Brokaw, chairman of the independent Avenue Pictures. "Consolidations like this one could foreclose competitive outlets...
...headlines just by quarreling with Richard Burton. So when "ol' violet eyes" announced that she and seventh husband LARRY FORTENSKY were undertaking a trial separation, people seemed less shocked than mildly nostalgic. "Let the tabloid games begin," Taylor said. But the tabs were already busy with fresh quarry--the rumor that J.F.K. Jr. had proposed to his girlfriend Carolyn Bessette...
...more fortunate nights, I listened to a friend recollect how she was dining alone at a corner seat when a foreign entryway invaded her table and completely ignored her. Another friend would refuse to eat unless someone accompanied him to the dining hall. Then there was the rumor of the girl who would take an extra tray and set it across from her so no one would think she was alone...