Word: tabloidizing
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...what she really deserved: a very public complete dressing-down. Saddled with some $3 billion in debt and liabilities from Wachner's acquisition spree and stock buybacks, Warnaco filed for bankruptcy protection. Wachner's collection of fashion brands suddenly doesn't look too flattering. The fallout from a tabloid-headlined legal tussle with Calvin Klein, not to mention a slumping retail economy, adds another wrinkle...
...child, but a 24-year-old woman: her parents' child in any case. They must bear the added mystery of her relationship (whatever that was) with the Congressman - a smear of prurient Washington intern-scandal. Evil, which can be so crummy and ordinary, always enjoys a tabloid touch. If it were not for the business about the Congressman, Gary Condit of California - made more titillating by his evasiveness - Chandra would have disappeared from the newspapers almost as abruptly as she vanished from her Washington apartment...
...words "British" or "English," and most people think "enduring": a royal succession that goes back to 1066, the language of Shakespeare, ancient universities, the mother of Parliaments. But the reality of Blair's post-imperial, globalized Britain - when the royals are tabloid fodder, hereditary peers have been kicked out of the House of Lords, and Scotland and Wales have their own assemblies - is better described as fluctuating. And that is giving British politics a case of vertigo. In small ways and large, national identity, and its more prickly cousins immigration and race, keep popping onto the national agenda...
...same precinct, Crusty the Clown - apparently hired by a tabloid - tried to get close to Hague, presumably to give the newspaper a photograph with a "two clowns" caption. But Crusty was determinedly blocked off by former Olympic runner Sebastian Coe, now Hague's right-hand...
...Winners DAVID BECKHAM Soccer's Spice Boy gets the O.K. from coach to play for England with a mohawk. Coach rejects Beck's bid to play bottomless DARYL HANNAH Actress wins libel suit against London tabloid. For a moment, she imagines the victory will reinvigorate her career?then reality sets in NANNI MORETTI Cannes awards director Italy's first Palme d'Or in 30 years. As if having fine-looking women, swell clothes and great cuisine wasn't enough