Word: gossiped
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...where, when to harvest, how long to age a wine and in what kind of container. The names and reputations of California's star vintners are as well known to oenophiles as those of celebrity chefs are to ardent foodies. Sometimes their comings and goings provide rich material for gossip. Five days before the start of this year's harvest, Lake County's ambitious Kendall- Jackson Vineyard hired away John Hawley, the chief vintner at Sonoma's Clos du Bois. That was the sneaky equivalent of a chic bistro's signing up a rival's chef two hours before Saturday...
...joke appeared in newspapers around the world. In France, however, where Mitterrand's private life is the stuff of gossip but is rarely discussed in print, discretion prevailed. Agence France-Presse, which is subsidized by the government, carried the joke on its wires but in a bowdlerized version picked up from the Soviet media. No mention was made of Bush or Mitterrand, whose names were substituted by "a President...
...talk, for the most part, isn't about Hamptons and debentures. A petite blond writer in an electric red dress speculates for a guest about what might happen at National Review now that Bill Buckley has retired. A tweedy editor of the critical monthly New Criterion has some delicious gossip about faculty problems at Duke. A lanky novelist asks if anyone else plans to catch the lecture on Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain at the Opus Dei center next door...
...commit murder, is president of Lifers' Group Inc., headquartered behind four security doors in the gloomy Victorian fortress in Rahway, N.J. Its 54 members are serving sentences of at least 25 years for crimes ranging from armed robbery to murder. While fellow inmates pump iron, watch TV or gossip in their cells, these jailhouse Rockefellers volunteer their time to help the world outside. "I figured out early on that there were only two things I could work out here," says George, 45. "My health and my mind, and I had to nourish both of them...
Along with all those effulgent rhythms, it's the finesse of the language that lofts songs like this out of the arena of gossip and retribution into something far more formidable. "In its literary context, his writing is very important," says the poet Derek Walcott, to whom Simon dedicates a Saints song called The Coast. "Most poetry is sedate, quiet, self-concerned. His imagination is much bolder and more refreshing. He reminds me of Hart Crane...