Word: gossipers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Real town meetings--I mean the old-fashioned kind in which a town's voting population meets annually to bicker, gossip, elect councilmen, vote on bond issues--are anachronisms today, surviving only in a few eccentric backwaters of Ye Olde New England. But the pseudo town meeting, as developed by the President and his imagemakers, is a ubiquitous political gimmick, practiced by candidates nationwide. Perfected in the President's 1992 campaign, the format is familiar to anyone unlucky enough to own a TV. A television studio--or a hall outfitted like a TV studio--is filled with a carefully screened...
Your readers would be better served by the broader coverage that has made TIME the standard bearer for insightful reporting than by so many pages on this scandal [SPECIAL REPORT, Feb. 9]. All of us can obtain gossip from the supermarket tabloids. Forget the sleaze. LEN BLAIR Hermiston...
...appalled by the spectacle of the U.S. drowning in a sea of petty, malicious gossip. President Clinton has been a compassionate and effective leader. Return Starr to earning an honest living. Let Paula Jones gossip with her neighbors over the back fence. Encourage the Christian right to study the New Testament, not just the Old. WERNER C. STURM Scotch Plains...
WASHINGTON: Since nobody ? not even her lawyer ? knows when Monica will testify, Washington has to satisfy itself with gossip. And it got plenty of that Tuesday when President Clinton's trusty press secretary seemed to hint at a certain frustration with his boss over the Lewinsky affair. In an interview with the Chicago Tribune online, Mike McCurry wondered aloud whether the relationship between the President and the former intern would be easy to explain to the American people. "Maybe there'll be a simple, innocent explanation," he said. "I don't think so, because I think we would have offered...
Birthday Letters answers that question, but not in a way that is likely to satisfy those looking for gossip or breast-baring confessions. The 88 poems assembled here--all but two of them, The Pan and The Inscription, addressed to Plath as "you"--combine to form an often harrowing and poignant narrative in which the central characters are doomed to their fates before the story begins...