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...Journalists are a varied assortment, of course - some of them as shabby, venal or self-important as the cast of Evelyn Waugh's Scoop, the 1937 novel that is still the most hilarious depiction of foreign correspondents and their publishers in the grip of a vigorous incomprehension of just about everything. In the book William Boot, who writes a nature column for a British newspaper called the Beast - composing sentences like "Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole" - is recruited by mistake to join a collection of journalistic mountebanks and hacks in covering coup and countercoup...
...GIRLS' GUIDE TO ELVIS It's just like being in junior high again. This book offers the scoop on Elvis' way with women--the wives, the girlfriends, the screaming fans--and leaves plenty of room for ever important hair and wardrobe discussion. Oh, yeah, a rundown of Elvis films and concert highlights...
...Crewdson, “how scientists behave when the stakes are high.” Non-scientists will discover that scientists are just as tempted by corruption and driven by personal fame as politicians or Hollywood stars. Scientists court the media, wine and dine their colleagues and try to scoop the discoveries of rival labs. In the meantime, they also do research...
Andie Rutland was browsing the newsstand at Barnes & Noble in Omaha, Neb., when a rare image caught her eye. It was Sally Field on the cover of More magazine, very attractive in a scoop-neck shirt but, at 53, also very unlike the twentysomething models on many of the other covers on the rack. "It just really struck me that the person on the cover was a mature person," she says. "It fit me and where I am at this point in my life...
...good father. Even his determined campaign to accustom the country (and his mother) to the wifelike status of Camilla Parker Bowles takes second place to burnishing his paternal image. Charles' aides were savvy enough to cooperate once the News of the World sought confirmation for its newest scoop, which meant his thoughtful handling of Harry and the drug-clinic visit got a lot more ink than Club H's bar and Charles' ignorance of his son's vigorous social life. COURAGE OF A WISE AND LOVING DAD was the paper's main editorial, widely echoed in the British press...