Wyman characterise the work as a 'gossipy account of a voyage to Spain'.

The bloggers predict that they will provide coverage on issues too narrow for mainstream news media, while offering an irreverent eye on the media-political complex and gossipy accounts of behind-the-scenes convention life.

To the Editor: Nicholas Lemann reviews my book "Reasonable Doubts" (March 3) as if it were supposed to be yet another gossipy account of the Simpson trial.

Michelle Green's book is an "exuberant, captivating, gossipy account of this bargain-basement Eden," John Lahr said here last year.

He tested Dr. Crick's patience most strongly with his gossipy account of their discovery in "The Double Helix."

Both are primarily gossipy, behind-the-scenes accounts centering not on policy decisions but on personalities, who naturally enough in Mr. Speakes's case include many journalists.

He was quite unreasonably furious at "The Double Helix," Watson's deep though gossipy account of their discovery.

Weekend newspaper supplements retailed gossipy accounts of how The Satanic Verses had failed to win the Booker prize, with malicious claims regarding Rushdie's tantrums when this happened.

The Muraqqa' is a wonderfully gossipy account of Delhi taken from the diary of an impressionable young visitor named Dargah Quli Khan.

For years James Watson's "Double Helix" has tantalized readers with its gossipy account of the discovery of the structure of DNA.