Gossip (30 page)

Ali, Muhammad,
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Allen, Woody,
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American Scholar
editorial board,
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Amis, Kingsley,
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Amis, Martin,
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amusement, gossip as,
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analysis of character,
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Andersen, Hendrik,
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Angell, Roger,
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Anna Karenina
(Tolstoy),
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antediluvian gossip,
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Arbuckle, Roscoe "Fatty,"
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Arendt, Hannah,
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Arnaz, Desi,
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Arouet (Voltaire),
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art

gossip as art form,
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government-sponsored,
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Ashbery, John,
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Assange, Julian,
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athletes, as celebrities,
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attacks, personal,
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See also
revenge

audience for gossip.
See also
celebrities, celebrity; public gossip

in America,
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changing nature of,
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personal preferences,
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receptivity,
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and spread of literacy,
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Audition
(Walters),
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Austen, Jane,
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autobiography.
See
self-gossip

Ayer, A. J.,
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Babbitt
(Lewis),
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Bachelor, The
(TV show),
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Bachrach, Judy,
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backbiting,
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bad behavior, gossip about,
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Baker, Josephine,
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Balderston, Katherine,
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Baldwin, James,
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Balfour, Patrick,
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Balzac, Honoré de,
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Bankhead, Tallulah,
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Barchester Towers
(Trollope),
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Barnes, Julian,
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Barr, Roseanne,
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Barrymore, John,
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Beaton, Cecil,
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Beauvoir, Simone de,
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Beaverbrook, Lord,
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"been there, done that,"
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Beginning of the Journey, The
(D. Trilling),
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Bellow, Saul,
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Bennett, James Gordon,
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Bennett, Mary,
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Bennett, William,
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Bentivoglio,
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Berenson, Bernard,
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Bergmann, Jörg,
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Berlin, Isaiah

character modeled on,
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gossip about,
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love of gossip,
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Bernstein, Carl,
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Bernstein, Felicia,
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Bernstein, Jeremy,
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Bernstein, Leonard,
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Bernstein, Richard,
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Berra, Yogi,
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Billboard
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Billingsley, Sherman,
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biography, gossip in,
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Birstein, Ann,
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births, out of wedlock,
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Bitterwaitress blog,
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Black, Barbara,
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Black, Conrad,
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blackmail,
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Black Panther fundraiser, Wolfe article about,
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Blackwood, Caroline,
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Blair, Betsy,
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Blessington, Lady,
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blind item,
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See also
Winchell, Walter

blogs.
See also
self-gossip

correcting errors in,
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malicious/destructive gossip in,
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recounting indiscretions in,
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Bloom, Allan,
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Bloom, Claire,
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Bloom, Harold,
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Boetticher, Budd,
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Bonaparte, Mathilde,
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Book of Daniel
(Doctorow),
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Boorstin, Daniel J.,
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Boston Globe,
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Boswell, James,
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Boulogne, Duc de,
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Bourgogne, Duc de,
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Bowles, Camilla Parker,
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Bowra, Maurice,
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Braden, Joan,
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Bradlee, Ben,
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Brandeis, Louis,
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Brando, Marlon,
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Braudy, Leo,
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
(Capote),
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Bright Young Things,
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Brisbane, Arthur,
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Britain, Great.
See
England

Brontö sisters,
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Brooke, Edward,
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Broun, Heywood,
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Brown, George Hambley and Bettina,
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Brown, Homer Obed,
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Brown, Tina (Christina)

childhood, ambitions,
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The Daily Beast,
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The Diana Chronicles,
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marriage,
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on moral benefits of gossip,
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move to America,
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networking skills,
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The New Yorker,
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Talk
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Tatler
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understanding of Zeitgeist,
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Vanity Fair
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Bryant, Kobe,
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Brynner, Yul,
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Buchalter, Louis "Lepke,"
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Buchanan, James,
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Buffet, Warren,
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Burnett, Carol,
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Busch, Wilhelm,
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busybody,
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"Busy-Body" column,
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buzz, creating,
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Byron, Lord,
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cable television,
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café society,
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Cagney, James,
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Callas, Maria,
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Camus, Albert,
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candor

as motive for gossip,
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and self-gossip,
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as social norm,
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Capote, Truman,
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Carson, Johnny,
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Carson, Rachel,
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Cartland, Barbara,
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Cassini, Igor,
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Cassini, Oleg,
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Castro, Fidel,
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catty remarks,
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CBS,
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celebrities, celebrity

celebrity class/cult,
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demystification of through gossip,
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interest in, enduring,
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Internet and,
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new vs. old gossip,
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and public's right to know,
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reporting about, as news,
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right to privacy of,
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royalty as,
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and
Schadenfreude,
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and self-promotion,
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Chafetz Chaim
(
Seeker of Life
) (Kagan),
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Channon, Chips,
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Chaplin, Charlie,
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character/personality, elucidating,
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characters, fictional, sources for,
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Charles, Prince of Wales,
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Chatwin, Bruce,
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Cheever, John,
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Cheney, Dick,
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Cheney, Lynne,
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Chevreuse, Duc de,
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Chicago Cubs,
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Child of the Century
(Hecht),
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Churchill, Randolph,
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Churchill, Winston,
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City Boy
(White),
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Clerambault, Mme. de,
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Cleveland, Grover,
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Cleveland, Ruth,
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Clift, Montgomery,
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Clinton, Bill,
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Clinton, Hillary,
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Cohn, Roy,
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Collins, Gail,
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Comedy of Errors
(Shakespeare),
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Communism,
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Compton, Betty,
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Condé Nast magazines,
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confessional poetry/literature,
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See also
self-gossip

Confidential
magazine,
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Connolly, Cyril,
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context, importance of,
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conversational tone,
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Cosmopolitan,
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Couric, Katie,
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Coward, Noöl,
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Craig, Larry,
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Cramton Hodnet
(Pym),
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crime, gossip about,
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criticism, gossipy,
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Cronkite, Walter,
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Crosby, Dixie Lee,
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Crowninshield, Frank,
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Cuneo, Ernest,
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curiosity, as rationale for gossip,
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Curtis, Tony,
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Cutler, Jessica,
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