Word: butz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Stick around politics long enough and odds are you'll let something slip out that offends someone. Jesse Jackson took a lot of heat for calling New York "Hymietown," and former agriculture secretary Earl Butz's notorious remark correlating black people's ambitions with loose shoes, among other things, deservedly cost him his job. But what if the statement in question was offensive only to people who misunderstood its meaning? Just ask David Howard, a former aide to Washington, D.C., mayor Anthony Williams, who had to resign for using a word that was mistakenly considered to be racist...
...attempt to thicken his cinematic stew, Lumet throws in countless non-characters running around trying desperately to make some sort of moral statement. Most prominent is Dr. Butz (Albert Brooks, in a role far beneath him), the resident money hungry alcoholic mastermind doctor emeritus at the hospital. Like so many in the film, Butz never gets to be a real person. He simply serves as a vehicle by which the screenwriter may embody every negative trait associated with the health care industry...
Arthur R. Butz, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northwestern University, runs a Web site on the university's server dedicated to Holocaust revisionism...
...students who keep cigarettes in refrigerators and an inventor who, after a "brain attack," only moos. Secretaries sell Amway products by telephone, and computer nerds get million-dollar grants to work on "calf-free lactation." One whole chapter is given over to the inner thoughts and agonies of Earl Butz, a "very fastidious hog" who is described quite as sympathetically as the two-legged creatures around him: "At bottom, he was still the hog he had always been, the hog he was bound to be, and he was bound to eat. That was his genius and his burden...