Word: tabloidism
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...January 21, Parade, a tabloid insert in the Sunday editions of newspapers nationwide, ran a cover story titled "Why They Excel--What we can learn from our Asian-American students who are winning coveted places and high honors...
...take practically anybody," says Street News founder and editor in chief Hutchinson Persons, 33. Persons, a former rock musician, created the tabloid-size publication with borrowed money and donations so that homeless people could make money selling it instead of begging. Since Street News debuted four months ago, says Persons, nearly 1,000 homeless and near homeless men and women have sold more than 1 million copies in New York City. Beginning next month the paper will also be available in Philadelphia, the first of five additional cities where it is targeted for distribution by year...
...obstacle a married movie star must overcome is the time he spends away from his wife. (Another annoyance is tabloid tales of imminent splitsville, and Cruise has heard those too.) But Cruise and his wife, actress Mimi Rogers | (Someone to Watch Over Me), spend as much time together as possible in their New York City apartment and visit each other when they are filming in far-flung locations. Cruise says it helps to have a wife in the business: "It's like trying to explain how driving a race car feels. You can't do it. They...
...affair made in tabloid heaven: stripteaser Blaze Starr ("Miss Spontaneous Combustion, and I do mean bustion!") and Earl K. Long, fine Governor of the great state of Louisiana. Long was too full of his princely power to be discreet about his indiscretions. Blaze could have told him -- and in this lengthy, clever, depressing film she does -- that "your political instincts are clouded by the aroma of my perfume." By 1959, when Long's campaign slogan was the forthright "I ain't crazy," his liaison with the stripper was as controversial as his tax evasion and support for Negro voting rights...
Containing commentary by faculty and administrators, information on student organizations and a winter sports schedule, 4000 copies of the premiere eight-page issue of the tabloid Harvard College News were distributed yesterday to undergraduate residences...