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Word: doyen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1990
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Right across town, hours later, the New York Post's Cindy Adams, a darker and doughtier and even more decked-out doyen of dirt, was marinating in Donald Trump's self-righteous anger at being blamed for that saddest of commonplaces, a divorce. He was just as eager as his wife to hash out in public a story that seemed certain to do him no good, proving again the quirky fact that keeps all gossip columns in business: for some people, there is just no such thing as bad publicity. In Adams' published stories she too stood front and center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gossip: Pssst...Did You Hear About? | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

Mary Cronin probed the public relations trade . . . "Flacks guiding clients up the social ladder," she says, "protect them as if they were atomic secrets" . . . In Washington, Michael Riley rang up Diana McLellan, the doyen of D.C. gossips . . . "She breathlessly picked up the receiver and talked without stopping. And she was doing her nails, causing her to lose her train of thought several times" . . . In Los Angeles, Jeanne McDowell concluded that gossip levels there approach the toxic because so many people have car phones . . . Stuck in traffic? Call a friend and talk about Cher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From the Publisher: Mar 5 1990 | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

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