Word: gossip
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Nunn would be ideal for placating Tory Democrats, his conservative voting record would hardly delight Jackson or other liberals. So the hot name on the Veep gossip circuit last week was that of Senator Bob Graham, former Governor of Florida and a Dukakis supporter known to be more interested in the assignment than Nunn is. An affable, energetic campaigner highly popular at home, Graham could at least reel in the South's second largest state, one that is essential to building an electoral-vote majority. Other prospects are slipping into speculation as well...
...have abandoned this backwater metropolis, once heralded as "the gateway to America," but life goes on in stunning profusion. Garcia Marquez generously populates a place "where everything was known, and where many things were known even before they happened, above all if they concerned the rich." But the constant gossip actually pays little heed to class distinctions. Whatever their status, the author's characters energetically play their parts in the human comedy. They are born to die. Hearts are enchanted, broken and sometimes put back together again. Wisdom accrues to those who have grown too old to profit...
...Biloxi. Before the local media interviews, Teeley takes Bush aside and whispers Dole campaign gossip: Brock and Dole are rumored to be not speaking. Bush frowns. "Well, I guess we should just keep plugging ahead on the high road," Bush says. "I know that's going to be tough for you, Pete," he adds kiddingly, and then slugs Teeley on the arm. The first question at the local press conference is from a blond local TV reporter in black Reeboks: "Mr. Vice President, how do you stay in such great shape...
...Gossip does not draw Dukakis. Staffers do not bother to pass along political nuggets because they know the Governor has little interest. He reads few books but consumes the details of briefing papers. He is indifferent to movies. When friends last year urged him to watch a couple of highly praised films, Platoon and Hoosiers (they believed exposure to the Midwestern flavor of the latter might serve him well in the Iowa caucuses), no one was surprised that Dukakis returned the videocassettes unviewed. Recently staffers on the road arranged for him to see Moonstruck, a new film starring an actress...
Houch sets in motion the cocktail hour gossip that keeps the plot buzzing along. Julie Shuttlewaithe (Ann Schellenberg) noses her way into Edward's apartment to keep up on the latest gossip. She's also a guardian angel, albeit a garish one (that someone actually would wear such hideous clothes as hers staggers the imagination...