Word: tabloidism
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Although he is a veteran of seven marriages and seven divorces, Actor Mickey Rooney seems determined to keep repeating that big wedding scene. So it was hardly surprising when a Hong Kong tabloid reported last week that Rooney, 54, had settled on Wife No. 8. "At long last I've found the girl of my dreams," the newspaper reported Mickey as saying, adding that he planned to wed Jan Chamberlain, 25, a singer-composer whom he has known for eight years. Not surprising, perhaps, to anyone but the supposed groom, who is now in Hong Kong working...
...synagogues, gay Alcoholics Anonymous groups, a lesbian credit union, even a gay Nazi Party and a Jewish lesbian group formed to fight it. There are now more than 800 gay groups in the U.S., most of them pressing for state or local reforms. The Advocate, a largely political biweekly tabloid for gays, has a nationwide circulation of 60,000, and the National Gay Task Force has a membership...
...confused. Keys dangling from a belt over the left hip generally signal a desire to be sexually dominant; on the right, a passive disposition. But the designations may change from city to city and bar to bar. An expert on left-right symbolism interviewed for the gay tabloid the Advocate last week warned of a further possible misunderstanding. If they are on the right side he said, it may just mean that the wearer is righthanded...
...where they put all freshman in rooms with members of the opposite sex, just so the could be fully educated. The point is that if you were going to hint plausibly that any American college is a sex haven, you'd hint that it's Harvard. The old tabloid Hearst newspaper in Boston liked that Harvard the best: "HARVARD BARES WILD PARTIES" was its banner headline...
...against him and Doris buy a New York "literary cabal." He is defensive because he most feel somewhat responsible for Kearns's most. He says that some of the news and editorial accounts have been aimed more at him than at Doris, and be does not like the facile, tabloid image that he has gotten as the swarthy manipulator who has ruined the blonde ingenue...