dramarama

[Ben Zimmer]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 5:59 AM, Paul Frank <paulfrank at post.harvard.edu> wrote:
>
> Dramarama: not the alternative rock band or the British TV series but
> the word used to describe the dramatizing of events that are either
> trivial or ought to be considered trivial. I don't see it in the OED.
> The word is good enough for the Washington Post:
>
> Over the past two decades, the reputation of the entire royal family
> has steadily declined from regal to rancid. There was the divorce of
> Charles's brother, Andrew, not to mention further dramarama earlier
> this year when his former wife, the Duchess of York ("Fergie"), was
> caught on video arranging payment for access to her ex.

link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/16/AR2010111606190.html

And here it is used by the Post 10 years ago:

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http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/58665639.html?dids=58665639:58665639&FMT=ABS
For [Richard Hatch], 39, the alarm rang long before dawn--oh, is it
2:45 a.m. already?--so he could be up, shaved, dressed and ready for a
live encounter with Bryant Gumbel on "The Early Show," which included
yet another reunion with his fellow former castaways. (No, that was
not a rerun of last night's Gumbel dramarama.)
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