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...record" reserves that central plot of the front page for news of some seriousness and prestige - a war, a merger of corporate giants, Alan Greenspan's blood pressure. But here, in the space set aside for Big History, was the story of Rudy's domestic untidiness - all strictly tabloid, from the pix to the quotes to the heds...
...writings made him a hero among conservatives, died in 1992, the cause was officially announced as liver failure. But Ravelstein, the alleged Bloom figure in Bellow's novel, appears as a largely closeted homosexual who contracts HIV and ultimately dies of AIDS-related illness. Needless to say, given this tabloid age, Ravelstein has already produced a lot of gossip...
...into what might be considered fraudulent activity, in which you're soliciting money under false pretenses." On that count, the Bush camp would seem to have a better, though still slim, chance of success: gwbush.com has an e-commerce component, including touts for the book "Fortunate Son," in which tabloid journalist J. H. Hatfield argues that Bush is guilty of a host of crimes, including cocaine use. It could conceivably be argued that a hurried Bush supporter could easily click on the site and buy the book without realizing it's negative. That, however, isn't an FEC problem...
...Miguel Gonzalez who had died in the Straits of Florida and the mother who waited back in Cuba, Elian would have been sent back to her immediately, on the premise that the mother-child bond trumps politics. It's natural. But the father...that's different. In the postfeminist tabloid subconscious of America, fathers are problematic figures with bad track records--a certain smudge of anger and potential violence in them, untrustworthy, given to rotten behavior, if not now, then later. And, by association, this particular dad morphs vaguely into a bearded Stalinist dictator...
Last week CODY GIFFORD filed his first lawsuit. And, no, it wasn't against his mother. The 10-year-old towheaded heir of KATHIE LEE and Frank Gifford is charging the National Examiner tabloid with injury to reputation and emotional distress for an article that reported he was a menace on the set of a TV movie. The Giffords claim the story is a fabrication. When asked if it was odd for a 10-year-old to file a lawsuit, Gifford's attorney Barry Langberg said, "It is a little unusual, but then again, it's unusual for a tabloid...