Word: tabloidization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
...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...
...identity blur in this hypnotic story of Scottish jazz trumpeter Joss Moody, who, like the real Billy Tipton, is shockingly discovered after his death to have been a woman. Told from the point of view of his grief-stricken widow Millie, his adopted son Colman and Sophie Stones, a tabloid hack hot on Moody's trail, Trumpet is about the walls between what is known and what is secret. "Every person goes about their life with a bit of perversion that is unadmittable, secretive, loathed," Kaye writes. Marred by a central inconsistency--could Joss Moody have been both such...
...three to decline from a year ago. Yet CNN chief Rick Kaplan says the network will continue to stress the breadth of its coverage. "I don't want to put the network in a situation where if there's no news, we pick out the most tabloid story and talk about that for a whole day," he says. "Our core news viewer wants...
...Brien. Barely alighted on the hotseat, he announced, with appropriate finger gestures, that the President is hung like a cashew. The Crimson immediately pulled strings and waxed plaintive to get a one-on-one with the celebrated word-wrestler who delivered such literary punches as The Black Dahlia, American Tabloid and L.A. Confidential. Armed for the interview with nonsense and irreverence, The Crimson was taken aback to find a straight and staid character with answers to defeat over populated extremist myth in which we would like to outfit...