Word: scuttlebutt
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Crusade we met Indy's father (Sean Connery) and learned that Indy's real name was Henry Jones, Jr. Indeed, "Junior" was Dad's apparently derogatory form of address for his son. That gag is repeated here, since - as everyone who's paid the slightest attention to pre-release scuttlebutt knows - Mutt is Indy's son by Marion. (Why is he called Mutt? Presumably because, as we learned at the end of The Last Crusade, Indiana was the name of the Jones family dog; Mutt's just extending the breed.) He enters on a motorcycle, in the leather-jacket regalia...
...just as the scuttlebutt at the Imperial is a window into Nicaragua's corridors of power, my local barbershop is the best place to take the pulse of the street. Here, news rolls easily off the tongues of those who know what they're talking about, and those who don't. Sometimes, the barbershop itself becomes part of the news: When legendary newspaper publisher and opposition leader Pedro Joaquin Chamorro was gunned down by unknown shooters in January 1978, the leading suspect - one of Larios' clients - told the police he had been getting a haircut at the Imperial Barbershop...
Harvard’s allure persists despite the scuttlebutt that annually makes the rounds of college guidebooks and high school hallways: arrogant undergraduates, prep school snobs, little interaction between faculty and students, a social life descended from Puritan roots, a campus whose temperature is as chilly as its temperament. “Kids won’t pass up Harvard, even though they may not be elated the entire time they’re there,” says Katherine Cohen, founder of IvyWise, an admissions counseling service in Manhattan...
MATTHEW COOPER On that day, Libby relayed the same scuttlebutt about Wilson's wife to Cooper and stated that he had no idea if it was accurate...
...today the focus is less on GPAs and resumes and other fixations of senior year. Instead, inside jokes and anecdotes are the topics of conversation, as the Straus A veterans recall the scandals and scuttlebutt that defined their time in the Yard...