Word: tabloided
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...ceremonial sword, "One Lilac Dress with Beige Hanger and Cellophane Dust Cover," 13 cards and letters that "Mummy" wrote William, including one that begins "My darling Wombat." The bric-a-brac of the dead is always sad. That Diana's was picked through in a courtroom full of tabloid reporters taking shorthand was doubly so, but also powerfully reminiscent of her life, both tawdry and irresistible: little bits of the goddess preserved in plastic bags, relics of a media saint. Prosecutor William Boyce said Diana's mother and sister will testify during the six-week trial that Burrell...
...kind of like a Miami Vice episode," says Tally. "I love the book." His script, which explores all the characters' psychological underpinnings, helped get the esteemed cast on board: Edward Norton as Will Graham, Ralph Fiennes as the serial killer and Philip Seymour Hoffman as a tabloid reporter who expires, memorably, in a speeding, flaming wheelchair...
...Duncan Smith has fired his party chairman, lost his director of strategy and found no coherent line of attack. His latest burden is the revelation that Major, the last Tory Prime Minister, had a four-year affair in the 1980s with Edwina Currie, a boisterous former Health Minister - and tabloid reporters are on the hunt for other women who may have seen Major's blue underpants. This has revived memories of the Tories' bad old days of lurid scandals interspersed with pious calls for higher moral standards. Michael Ancram, the Tories' deputy leader, says his boss will focus on bread...
...groundbreaking approach to statecraft was not an unqualified success - he was recalled to Bern when a Swiss paper published details of an alleged affair with a topless model. Though he denied the story from the beginning and has since received a sizable out-of-court settlement from the tabloid, which admitted fabricating the story, he quit government and remains bitter over his treatment. "I will never go back under this minister," he says when asked if he would ever return to the diplomatic corps. "But fortunately ministers change...
...TIME: The Foreign Minister criticized you for how you handled the tabloid incident and for mixing your personal and professional lives. Borer: This is a ridiculous allegation. My minister, Joseph Deiss, didn't stick up for me. One of the scandals is that the ministry was informed five days earlier that this story was going to run and instead of giving me the chance to prepare my defense or maybe file an injunction, they wouldn't tell me anything...