Word: tabloidization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With Tuesday's piece on the grape debate titled "Grape Workers Recount Difficult-Conditions." The Crimson has descended further into the realm of tabloid journalism...
...Tabloid headlines in their native Belgium dubbed them THE DIABOLICAL LOVERS. In America they might have been called the Honeymoon Killers. Aurore Martin and Peter Uwe Schmitt allegedly found lonely singles, married them and then murdered them in order to collect the insurance money. Belgian authorities had been hunting the couple for months. Last week FBI agents arrested them in Miami, where they had spent their loot on an oceanfront condo and the Florida high life...
...very natural fit for Geraldo,? says TIME correspondent Richard Zoglin, ?because they share a real tabloid orientation and he?ll give them the personality they so desperately need...
...comingout party. No wonder then that it's a bland comedy that ends up reinforcing, not puncturing, gay stereotypes, and squanders a fine comic cast. Kline manages to rise above the plodding humor, especially in his show-stopping dance scenes, and Selleck is terrific as the sleazy, faintly Mephistophelean tabloid reporter who dogs his footsteps...
...heavy-handed affirmation of fidelity. The capper, though, has to be Sunday Morning: "I go to church and thank the Lord for another day/ When the service is over, I spend a little time with my family." Someone should tell Brown that there's a better way to escape tabloid hell and silence the naysayers: Make a good album...