Word: tabloidal
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...derision descended. "A catastrophe of the first order for the British people," sputtered Opposition Leader Michael Foot. "Fundamentally wrong in concept and maladroit in detail," complained a fellow Conservative M.P., Peter Tapsell. Said London's staid Financial Times: "An admission of defeat by the government." Blared the tabloid Sun: "Howe it hurts...
...Marvin "palimony" case has a Hollywood courtroom drama attracted such attention. As an expectant crowd lined the corridors at Los Angeles County superior court last week, Actress-Comedian Carol Burnett arrived for the first day of proceedings in her $10 million libel suit against the sensationalist weekly tabloid the National Enquirer (circ. 5.1 million). Said a determined-looking Burnett: "I'm very happy to be here. It's like a five-year-old toothache and I'm finally at the dentist...
...Heiress Doris Duke, severely dampened Confidential magazine's penchant for unfounded gossip. Confidential's circulation plummeted from 4.1 million to about 300,000, and the magazine folded in 1969. The Enquirer boasts that the Burnett case is the first libel trial since Generoso Pope Jr. bought the tabloid in 1952. But that is because it occasionally settles out of court...
...that was before Lady Diana Spencer came along and captured the tabloid's headlines-and reportedly Prince Charles' heart. In a vain attempt to catch sight of the elusive lovers, a bevy of reporters and paparazzi besieged the rusticating royals at the private 20,000-acre estate 100 miles north of London, "hanging about the stables, photographing anything that moves," according to the Queen's press secretary. At one point, the reporters threatened to upset a Shetland pony carrying the Queen's three-year-old grandson Peter. These breaches of protocol produced some rare cracks...
...education of Anthony Lewis had hardly begun. After working for Adlai Stevenson's campaign in 1952, he met an old-time Scripps Howard newspaperman, Lee Miller, who found Lewis a job with the now-defunct tabloid, the Washington Daily News...