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...Eastern Seaboard into a grownup career as a writer, producing capable and occasionally compelling chronicles of all things domestic. She has produced one novel and countless articles, and has been labeled -- not unfairly -- a women's writer. Now she has attempted a crime novel loosely based on a tabloid murder. The result is a whydunit...
...specific accusations published last week have been peddled for more than a year by a disgruntled former state employee Clinton had fired. The purveyor has zero evidence, and Clinton and the women allegedly involved all deny it. But the stories were published in the Star, a supermarket tabloid, picked up by the two New York papers, and thus became fair game for everyone else...
Clinton's prayer was answered a day later, when the Star, a supermarket tabloid, revived old charges by Larry Nichols, a former Arkansas state employee fired for misusing his official telephone to assist the Nicaraguan ^ contras. In 1990 Nichols named five women Clinton allegedly slept with, but all five denied the rumors again last week, and Nichols himself was recently quoted as saying, "I have my own agenda. ((Clinton)) roasted me" and now "everything I do will be done to run him out of the state." Having "it come out again now is fine," says a Clinton aide...
...Robert Maxwell case was stranger than most tabloid tales. The Czechoslovak-born press baron had created an empire financed largely through illusion, yet his holdings included the London Daily Mirror, New York City's Daily News and Macmillan, the U.S. book publisher. In assembling his web of 400 companies, Maxwell piled up debts, apparently without unduly alarming the dozens of banks and other lenders that let him borrow a sum now estimated at $7 billion...
...hardly an unmixed one. Unlike its much praised performance during the Persian Gulf war, CNN's pantyhose-to-towel coverage of the Smith rape trial was controversial. The all-news network pandered to tabloid tastes, critics complained, or ignored more "serious" news, or cut away too often for commercials, or invaded the victim's privacy, or tried to guard it too assiduously. Nonetheless, the trial illustrated the essence of CNN: the coverage was live, dramatic, exhausting, messy and irresistible...