Word: gossiped
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...shock the British literary world. Her childhood (which was spent in a Pentecostal home where the bible was taken quite literally) and her sexuality (she is an outspoken lesbian who has publicly outed many-a-closeted female of the publishing world) make her an intriguing oddball for the British gossip magazines...
...Washington.) Proof of Life, a romantic thriller with Meg Ryan and Russell Crowe, is coming out in the wake of the two stars' affair and the fracturing of Ryan's marriage to Dennis Quaid. The all-American blond is now a Jezebel, her cuddlings with Crowe sprayed across gossip-mag covers and on tabloid-tale TV shows. The eventual film looked destined to be remembered as Exhibit A in the trial of adulterous love...
...undergraduate women in particular, most are incapable of inactivity; lounging around becomes boring if they're not doing something with their hands, so knitting becomes the key to relaxation. As my wide scope of research shows, Harvard women never only knit--they knit and watch movies, or knit and gossip or knit and do anything. It's a preoccupation, something productive to be done anywhere, to kill time in the dorms, to relax before vigorous athletic competitions, to relax after vigorous athletic competitions and to keep the mind busy while on the phone...
...finally board the plane. I reach down to pick up A Passage to India, but I hear the girls behind me begin to talk and I capitulate. They gossip with fervor as if everyone should and wants to hear anything and everything they say. I learn about ubermensch #4 as I eat my dry carrots and meditate on the moist turkey of a few days...
...Harvard kid who crammed for the Civil War final, subsequently forgot everything, and feels guilty about it. Real historians have every right to be disappointed in the work's brevity, but it's a godsend for anyone who wants a short read and craves history that flows more like gossip. And regardless of past History B pain, the book is a short enough read to justify it as an investment in the impress-people-at-dinner store of knowledge...