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...Governor of Arkansas, spotted her at a Little Rock hotel, summoned her to his room, promptly dropped his pants and made a blunt sexual proposition. When she finally filed a $700,000 lawsuit against the President last week, she added a detail that launched the case decisively into the tabloid universe of Michael Jackson and the Bobbitts. To prove her allegation, she says, she can identify "distinguishing characteristics in Clinton's genital area...
...tabloid TV crews, rested after their exertions over Joey Buttafuoco, Tonya Harding, Michael Jackson and Mr. and Mrs. Bobbitt, have rushed back into the trailer park of American sleaze. Is it fair that the President should be vulnerable to lurid my-word-against-his-wo rd charges that might be made by anyone with an impulse to become famous by sliming the mighty...
Could any other tabloid newspaperman have been found on a New York City sidewalk in the middle of the afternoon, puffing a pipe and surveying the passing scene while listening to the music of Henry Purcell? It was Monday, the one working day he wasn't on deadline, and Murray Kempton was happy to slip off the earphones of his portable CD player and muse about Rebellions, Perversities and Main Events (Times Books; 570 pages; $27.50), a new collection of his writings...
...biggest peeve of all is the nosy, mean-spirited press. Usually Streisand tries to avoid reporters. But in a rare interview with TIME last week, she had all the recent slights at her fingertips: a British tabloid that claimed she arrived in London toting her own trash can (it was actually a hatbox); a New York Times op-ed piece criticized the dress she wore at the Inaugural gala; a story in TIME listed some of her alleged tantrums. And when, at a dinner honoring Hillary Clinton, she gave a speech about our society's view of women, nobody covered...
...train of thought is based on what is probable the newspaper's biggest story about a foreign country yet. In an attempt to make capital out of it, Mr.Gell is not only doing the newspaper a disservice but he has relegated himself to the class of muckrakers and insensitive tabloid newshounds...