Word: paparazzo
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...Stonehill College in North Easton, Mass., as well as at Vassar and Yale. At Stonehill, Bianca Jagger, 38, former wife of Rock Star Mick, was awarded an honorary doctorate for humanitarian work in her native Nicaragua and in El Salvador and Honduras. Recalling her 1981 adventures as a jungle paparazzo in Honduras with two friends, she told of rescuing a group of refugee hostages from a band of armed guerrillas. "We had no weapons, but we had a camera, and we used that as a weapon," she said. "I guess they felt we could do them harm if our pictures...
...Rainier ran up against a virtual wall of press lenses. Momentarily losing his temper, he reportedly lunged forward and hit one of the photographers, sending the fellow's glasses skittering across the pavement. At a Broadway theater the next night, Rainier was accused of cursing and slugging another paparazzo who clicked when he should have ducked. Later that night, as his father hopped into a waiting limousine, Albert extended the middle finger of his left hand to the clustered throng of photographers in the universally understood gesture of disapproval. At such moments, no doubt, royal families must wish that...
...shape. Says Lynn Krause, a builder in Joliet, Ill.: "I'd rather have people buy on a leased-land basis .than not at all." Part of the reason business is sluggish is that buyers are rebelling at the high price of a plot of land. Says Otto J. Paparazzo, a builder in Woodbury, Conn.: "Land is becoming so difficult to zone and improve that I don't think we can pass the costs on to the buyer any more...
...paparazzo will tell you it is a dog-eat-dog business, but those on the Caroline off Monaco beat know it better than most. Since her divorce from Philippe Junot, the jet-setting playboy, Caroline, 24, rarely makes the scene. Yes, there is the occasional rendezvous with Close Friend Roberto Rossellini, 31, Ingrid Bergman's son. But generally the princess restricts her company to another tall, dark male. He is an Alsatian named Oenix and clearly the jealous type...
...years, British Cameraman Peter Scoones has had an unlikely dream. A dedicated scuba diver, he wanted to photograph a live coelacanth (pronounced seal-ah-kanlh), the ancient, almost legendary, stump-legged fish which once was believed to have died out soon after the dinosaurs. Now this paparazzo of the deep has nailed his prey. Last week Scoones released rare color photographs of one of these "living fossils," swimming contentedly for his camera in the Indian Ocean off the Comoro Islands near the Malagasy Republic...