Word: tabloidization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about 1987, humor could do little to hide the estrangement. MAINHARDT GRAF NAYHAUSS, a German aristocrat, remembers a party in the Waleses' honor at the German embassy in London. "Diana wore a long red dress," Nayhauss said in a German tabloid. "Around midnight the Munich In crowd was rocking like crazy... Di [was] really with it. She seemed to like the informality of it all. Out of breath from the music, she asked the disc jockey to play something slower. She turned to go back out on the dance floor." But there was a "certain sadness about her," Nayhauss adds...
...accessories." But the causes Diana was most strongly identified with--AIDS, hospices, land mines--demanded more than a reflexive commitment. There is no question that she made a difference to the homosexual community, in England and perhaps elsewhere; her support came at a crucial time, in defiance of tabloid opinion as well as royal prudence. Yet the fact remains that Diana was far less dedicated than, for instance, her onetime sister-in-law, Princess Anne, whose want of looks long ago consigned her to near total obscurity. Let's face it: we're a planet of looks snobs...
...course, this is partly a tabloid mourning, just as Diana herself had become a tabloid star--almost a fictional star. Since the days of Thomas Hardy at least, people have been moved to passionate sorrow by the death of public personalities they have never met, and who sometimes never existed. No doubt thousands wept over the fate of Tess of the d'Urbervilles when her story appeared week by week in the Graphic in 1890, just as truly as they wept for Diana when they read of her death in the Sun in 1997. They have been deluded into thinking...
...bash for a Dragnet-type show where he moonlights as technical adviser. He is explaining why his small-screen counterpart seems so bland compared with his own colorful persona. "That's because he's the television version," smirks Jack, who pockets additional cash helping a sleazy Hollywood tabloid called Hush-Hush. "America isn't ready for the real...
...former colleague. "I'm very happy in my personal life" is all Spacey will say of his affairs. "I don't fault people for having an interest in me, nor do I try and stop that interest. I just don't participate in it." As the L.A. Confidential tabloid's motto goes, the real Kevin Spacey remains strictly off the record, on the q.t. and very hush-hush...