Word: tabloidizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work of literature the story of her life has merely the merits of explicitness and sincerity. These merits, inherit in the autobiography of a talented, bizarre, intelligent, beautiful and scandalously extraordinary woman, are enough to make such an autobiography a dazzling confusion of testament and tabloid true story...
These are tasty tabloid tricks...
Starting with Washington, there is scarcely a notable figure of history that has not been, "treated" in the new manner by the modern biographers. Caesar, and more generally, the Roman tradition, is the latest subject for tabloid treatment in book form...
Every innuendo is tabulated, annotated, put with the other conversational flotsam between board covers. The gossip about Henry Ward Beecher's liaison, the lady friend of the Man in the Iron Mask, the other life of Carlyle. All the things that were tongue transmitted because the tabloid was not yet. Louis VIII and Roosevelt ... Francis Joseph and Lord Northcliffe ... Joan of Arc and Jesse James ... all that was said by lips behind a gloved hand or an outspread fan. Why Victoria sent the young officer into the India service, the life and times of the President's Daughter, who paid...
...Victor F. Watson. Mr. Watson sits at the desk left vacant when Philip A. Payne strode confidently from the Mirror shop to the tiny cabin of Old Glory to ride to Rome and write the story for the Mirror. The airplane dived into the Atlantic; and the greatest of tabloid editors died on assignment (TIME, Sept...