Word: tabloidism
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This sordid tabloid riddle went mainstream last week when Curry, who is black, slapped Morgan Stanley with a Wall Street-size $1.35 billion lawsuit. The complaint charges that co-workers at the investment bank subjected Curry to racial harassment and discrimination during the nine months he was employed there. Then, Curry claims, after he appeared nude in the April 1998 issue of Playguy, a gay magazine, he was fired on the assumption that he was homosexual. He says...
...toll on top managers. The stress has already led to some marital de-mergers, including Schrempp's. The chain-smoking CEO is so determined to make DaimlerChrysler the world's No. 1 transportation-services company that he let his 35-year marriage collapse, because, as he told the German tabloid Bild last month, "the merger means more to me than anything in the world...
Asked about a British tabloid photo whichdepicted him at the Playboy Mansion in Hollywood,Rushdie answered that "Clearly, that's where I'vebeen for the last 10 years...
Asked about a British tabloid photo which depicted him at the Playboy Mansion in Hollywood, Rushdie answered that "Clearly, that's where I've been for the last 10 years...
...evil in actuality, when it touches down on earth like a tornado for a moment--as it did in Weston's visit to the Capitol, or last week in Littleton--may have a style so tacky, so moronic or so indelibly crazy that it gives off a radiant tabloid weirdness. This almost novelistic sheen of the loony makes the tragedies curiously hard to evaluate. The evil effect is evident--innocent blood everywhere; the cause, in the case of Littleton anyway, remains obscure. Evil is, after all, a mystery. The uniqueness of individual evils owes something to chaos theory. Perhaps...