Word: gawker
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...target of opportunity for office-seeking outsiders. Michael Bloomberg of Massachusetts is an old-fashioned naturalized New Yorker. He had a long and lucrative career on Wall Street before running for mayor in 2001. Hillary Clinton, by contrast, was no more a New Yorker than the average gawker in a foam Statue of Liberty hat when she began her first "listening tour" of the state in 1999. She staged a friendly takeover of the local Democratic Party, running a thorough, well-researched campaign in 2000 and zealously filling constituents' potholes ever since. New York's shrunken fortunes make it unthreatening...
...David Hyde Pierce, best known for playing snooty Niles Crane on Frasier, has come out, via his publicist. Laments Manhattan blog GAWKER: "It's hard to believe that the man who played one of sitcomdom's most effete heterosexuals may, in fact, dig dudes." SCORE...
...decorative oversight, for Cannes has not forgotten how to promote itself. The celebrity quotient is high-Leo and Matt, George Clooney and Brangelina-and this Riviera redoubt is also crawling with esteemed auteurs, including a couple dozen top-prize winners of Palmes d'Or past. On opening night, a gawker would have seen the cream of world directors in formal dress entering the Grand Palais, from 28-year-old Canadian Sarah Polley to Portugal's Manoel de Oliveira, 98, gamely scaling the 24 red-carpeted steps with as much satisfaction as a man climbing Everest...
...print journal “n+1,” sat down with FM and confirmed that our degrees are, in fact, useless. But don’t worry! Read on to learn how to turn your $160,000 diploma into a book deal, take sass from Gawker, and make your mom proud...
...Wait ‘til Gawker gets its filthy mitts on you. It’s just strange, you know we live in a time when people can say whatever they want about you on the Internet and take no responsibility for it. And ultimately you just have to ignore it, but it’s sometimes discouraging...