Date: Sun, 9 Nov 1997 19:31:52 -0500

From: Gregory {Greg} Downing downingg[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]IS2.NYU.EDU

Subject: One more -arazzi?



There was a thread a number of days back about -arazzi that I'm too lazy to

search for, but in case this coinage or nonce-word using -arazzi wasn't

mentioned:



Randy Taraborrelli, whose unauthorized bio of Sinatra is out soon or

already, is quoted as saying that Nancy Sinatra said his unauthorized and

unflattering biographizing made him "one of the `type-arazzi.'" This is from

Cindy Adams' gossip-column (gossip-columns seem to be where a lot of words

in -arazzi show up, perhaps in some cases for their only appearances).



I imagine Kitty Kelly would be the person whose picture you'd put in the

margin next to that particular word were it ever to graduate to dictionary

status.



Greg Downing/NYU, at greg.downing[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]nyu.edu or downingg[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]is2.nyu.edu