Word: rumorings
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...heroine is Ellen Olenska, May's cousin, now separated from her European aristocrat husband and thus the subject of purring rumor from the town's smooth hypocrites. As the radiantly giddy May seems a child to Newland, so he feels like a boy in Ellen's presence. The two fall in furtive love. But it is not falling so much as tiptoeing in the dark. Once he kisses her slipper; later he unbuttons her glove and kisses her wrist, then her mouth, which opens more in anguish than in lust. Guilt is the barrier between their lips. And both could...
...harboring the impression that the Time & Life Building serves as this self-confessed workaholic's home away from home. We would like to quash that persistent rumor once and for all. We really would. It's just that we have never seen Chua-Eoan's apartment, and some of us are beginning to suspect that he may never have laid eyes on it either. Howard has been sighted on every floor of the building except the lobby. That leaves one inescapable conclusion. "When Howard talks about commuting," says International senior editor John Saar, "he means getting on the elevator...
...been charged with so much as laying a glove on the boy, yet respected network news divisions were vying with tabloid TV to get the hot skinny. On CBS, This Morning co-anchor Paula Zahn interviewed a "reporter" for the sleaze show Hard Copy. In Britain the rumor rags were resplendent: sicko jacko, cried Thursday's Daily Star ("The Newspaper That Cares"); wacko jacko screamed the Sun. In the U.S. the baiting was a bit more genial. "Suddenly," Howard Stern told his nationwide radio audience, "Pee-wee Herman is an upright citizen." And Jay Leno on the Tonight Show noted...
...film cobbles together its story line from every half-baked rumor that ever surfaced about the famous pair. Bobby and Marilyn had a torrid affair, we learn, that was witnessed almost every step of the way by surveillance men hired by Jimmy Hoffa. The Teamsters boss even orders Bobby killed, but the would-be assassin, after training his telescopic sight on the couple smooching in a park, chickens out. Good thing, since Mafia boss Sam Giancana shortly thereafter tells Hoffa to lay off because the Mob is "doing a little business" with the Kennedy brothers...
...There tends to be an inverse relationship between the amount of press coverage each rumor receives and the likelihood of a deal. The Cosby gambit -- which was floated and came to nothing last fall, which generated a respectful Wall Street Journal article in June and a breathless feature in the current Vanity Fair -- is thus among the more implausible. It is also the most annoying, because Cosby's hangers-on are so strenuously pushing the notion, because it is such an indulgence of Cosby's self-righteous vanity, and because the story is a fabric of so many spurious bits...