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having the style and content of everyday conversation
this book on the people who have occupied the White House is a little too gossipy to qualify as serious history
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No secrets or information are safe, as Jupiter can be messy in Gemini's gossipy nature.
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Lisa Stardust, People.com, 10 Oct. 2024
As relative newcomers to this insular enclave of paranoid cops and gossipy ladies, Ben and Mark share a status as outsiders and are thrust into each other’s lives after the disappearance of the boys whom Mark had counted as friends.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Sep. 2024
Even before these invigorating wins, there were moments when the awards seemed ready to break convention—including an amusing segment in which Billy Crystal read from his journal of gossipy first impressions of talk-show hosts.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2024
People in Flynn’s gossipy elite media and business circles soon begin to discover his true relationship to the book, which threatens both his hopes for lucre and his intellectual bona fides.
—Randy Boyagoda, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2024
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Lisa Stardust, People.com, 10 Oct. 2024
As relative newcomers to this insular enclave of paranoid cops and gossipy ladies, Ben and Mark share a status as outsiders and are thrust into each other’s lives after the disappearance of the boys whom Mark had counted as friends.
—Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Sep. 2024
Even before these invigorating wins, there were moments when the awards seemed ready to break convention—including an amusing segment in which Billy Crystal read from his journal of gossipy first impressions of talk-show hosts.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2024
People in Flynn’s gossipy elite media and business circles soon begin to discover his true relationship to the book, which threatens both his hopes for lucre and his intellectual bona fides.
—Randy Boyagoda, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2024
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