Word: tabloidal
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...going on in the country," (63%) and 41% believe that their own Congressman has taken a bribe. Of course, they are still electing them - perhaps as a way of rewarding their sheer stick-to-it-iveness and initiative. Being this corrupt, after all, must be hard work. Between the tabloid stories and the presumption of corruption, no wonder the popular stereotype is that of a tanned professional talker with $100 bills coming out of his pockets and gristle from a Charlie Palmer steak still stuck between his molars...
...broke the story, the Times will be forever associated with the Bush administration’s telephone eavesdropping, but few would argue it was not doing its job by uncovering the program.Others argue that while The Crimson has a right to publish the story, it smacks more of tabloid journalism and is not serious news that merits space in the paper. It only makes us come across as petty and jealous, they say. But what these critics must remember is that Viswanathan is a public figure, and her book is a work publicly available to everyone. Five hundred thousand dollars...
...behaved, improbably gorgeous seafarer from the Pirates of the Caribbean movies who will take over Kate Moss's job hawking Chanel's Coco Mademoiselle perfume next year. Moss, 32, the face of the fragrance since 2002, lost modeling contracts with Burberry and H&M last year after a London tabloid ran photos of her allegedly snorting cocaine. But Moss's career is rebounding, and she will appear in an upcoming Calvin Klein campaign with, coincidentally, Knightley's ex, male model Jamie Dornan. Knightley, 21, says she's "thrilled to follow the extraordinary women who have been associated with [Chanel]," like...
...distinction to the mass audience of the '50s, who didn't know Bettie Page existed. If she'd had even a little mainstream fame, Estes Kefauver, who chaired a Senate investigation into the movies she starred in, would surely have called her to the witness stand, to gain tabloid headlines from the exposure of Bettie's lurid luster. Instead, while her producer defended his films ("But there's no nudity!") and psychiatrists attacked them, she sat outside the hearing room for 16 hours, ignored...
...BUZZ It's a hard call. Does Cruise the tabloid fixture hurt Cruise the movie star? This is the kind of movie audiences like to see him in, so it's a safer bet than, say, Vanilla Sky II. -By Rebecca Winters Keegan...