Word: tabloid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...preference, New York's tabloid Daily News (circ. 2,250,000) sticks to a sturdy guttural in judging the more delicate and esoteric works of man. But last week the News pulled the plug and let the adjectives flow for a new ballet...
...half months after Metropolitan Soprano Patrice Munsel, 26, stoutly denied a tabloid report that she was romancing with candy heir and television director Robert Schuler (TIME, Nov. 26), her parents announced their engagement and summer wedding plans...
After weeks of tabloid ballyhoo, curious patrons, including her Texas playboy husband Sheppard King, packed into a Miami Beach nightclub for the American premiere of Samia Gamal's torso-twisting harem dance. In bare feet, a gossamer pink skirt slit down the middle, gold tassels glittering round her bare midriff, Samia slithered through four minutes of her "real oriental art." Then she hurried to her dressing room for a Band-Aid for her big toe, which she had cut on the glass floor. Critical consensus: domestic burlesque is good...
...homes and swimming pools amid the rocks and woods of Hollywood Hills, an area just north of Hollywood. There, deer, skunks, possum and even rattlesnakes are often seen. To complete the illusion of country life, almost everybody in Hollywood Hills reads the Canyon Crier (circ. 6,500), a fortnightly tabloid which one admirer calls "a New Yorker with its shoes off." For its pheasant-under-glass audience, the homey Crier dishes up an oatmeal fare. It treats everybody in Hollywood Hills as if they were small-town neighbors. The Crier reports their most trivial doings at home-and treats Reader...
...husband, Ted Thackrey, onetime Post editor and now editor and publisher of the Redlined New York Compass, tried last week to get into the Post's act. The Compass picked up an attack on Winchell, recently run in a Manhattan monthly tabloid called Exposé, and billed it as "The Original Expose" on Winchell...