Word: squiblet
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Politics, moreover, has fashioned what has begun to seem like a permanent alliance with show business itself. In season, the same names that decorate the gossip columns and Variety begin popping up in political chronicles. Last week a squiblet on Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin turned out to be a note about a Boston fund raiser for Ronald Reagan. Singer Glen Campbell, it seems, is slated to give a benefit concert for John Connally. From the White House, via a guest list for a recent campaign dinner, comes word that supporters of the Carter-Mondale team include Johnny Cash, Willie...
...Mailer coins at least four new words: "fucky" as the description of her earlier roles with all their sexual abundance; "factoid" for the sort of press agent story which comes to life when it hits print; "bazzazz" for what she brought to Diamonds are a Girls Best Friend; and "squiblet" for one of her first small roles as a starlet, which first brought her to the attention of the hoary moguls of "Factoid Gulch...
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