Hope was tabloid-alert, and very New York.
As soon as Fraser's show was announced, the tabloids went on high alert.
But Britain's ever alert, ever cynical tabloids quickly dredged up some fishy details, including the possibility that Mr. Darwin, a prison officer, might well have amassed considerable debt before disappearing.
Looking to make a show of force, the cops had alerted the UK's tabloid press, who had been waiting outside Ellis's building since daybreak.
Leathers's agent alerted dailymail.com, the online version of a British tabloid with which she'd previously done business.
Our little home school would alert a battalion of inspectors, education bodies and tabloids today, but to us it was an interlude of untarnished joy.
"The unfortunate massacre in Beslan in the fall, the Amber Alerts that seem to be constantly in the tabloid news, it all just raises the anxiety level.
"Gone Girl"—spoiler alert!—pulls the curtain back on the Victorian fears that drive those tabloid suspicions.
"As images of human desolation were beamed into our homes this week," wrote Brian Reade in the Daily Mirror tabloid, referring to the Japanese tsunami, "rich and famous people were hunched over laptops alerting us to the grotesque injuries caused to their reputations".
But in Florida, an alert infectious-disease specialist became suspicious and ordered laboratory tests that confirmed pulmonary anthrax in a tabloid newspaper's photo editor.
Meanwhile, ever alert to fresh opportunities to illustrate news articles with photographs of women's behinds, the British tabloids have found in beach volleyball perhaps their Platonic ideal of an Olympic sport.
