Word: gossip
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Strolling from his art-filled office through a bulletproof door to a balcony overlooking an immense trading room, Cairo-born André Levy pauses to deny a bit of gossip circulating among his fellow money dealers in Lausanne, Switzerland. He insists that it is just not true that his firm - somewhat whimsically named Tradition S. A. - exchanges half a billion dollars for stronger currencies each day. The actual figure, he states with aplomb, is "more than a billion dollars...
...copies of the city's first real-life newspaper since Aug. 9. The first edition of 128 pages-twice as big as usual-was fat with pre-Columbus Day advertising, an eight-page news review of the 56 "lost" days and the same somewhat tacky mix of gossip, sports and crime that distinguished the prestrike Post...
...four new typographically wretched strike papers are throbbing with wire-service copy that the regular dailies would have spurned. But for New Yorkers used to the Daily News's outrageously witty headlines, the Times's impeccably orotund dispatches from Ouagadougou and Timbuktu and the Post's wonderfully inaccurate gossip, there is an aching void. "They're like children," says Political Consultant David Garth of the three struck dailies. "You don't know how much you love them until they leave home...
W.E.B. (Sept. 13, NBC, 10 p.m. E.D.T.). When the movie Network came out two years ago, rumors ran that the Faye Dunaway character was actually based on Lin Bolen, a onetime programming v.p. at NBC. This was nasty gossip, because Dunaway played a feral TV executive who might run over her grandmother in pursuit of higher ratings. Bolen survived all the talk and has now re-emerged as the executive producer of W.E.B. Set at a fictional TV network, the show is Bolen's rejoinder to the movie that savaged her. Or at least it is supposed...
...well-known people under the slogan: "everyone is entitled to know everything". But this is a false slogan, characteristic of a false era: people also have the right not to know, and it is a much more valuable one. The right not to have their divine souls stuffed with gossip. nonsense, vain talk. A person who works and leads a meaningful life does not need this excessive burdening flow of information...