Word: epithet
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...Eugene, Ore., according to Bicycle Coordinator Diane Bishop of the public-works department, police patrol university areas, especially in their annual autumn bike-safety campaign, in which, she says, "they ticket as many as 100 riders a month." Proliferating cyclists reduced Denver Post Sports Columnist John McGrath to epithet: "Look around: geeks in long black shorts are hunched over a pair of handlebars at every urban intersection, on every country road...
...also ran two departments that have made the Harvard name into an epithet for residents of the world immediatly outside: the Harvard Planning Department, which directs the University's expansion in ways that sometimes sacrifice other people's neighbor-hoods; and the Co-Generation Management Company, which runs Harvard's Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP...
...Mere name-calling is not actionable as a matter of law," argued the defense attorneys. Indeed, the judge suggested, it can be refreshing. "Creativity in the art of abusive epithet has all but disappeared," he stated. "It is all too rare today to hear the clear, clean ring of a really original insult...
...Grooms' exuberance there is no doubt. Not for nothing does he favor the rowdy epithet ruckus in collectively naming his pieces: Ruckus Manhattan, Ruckus Rodeo. His tableaux fairly burst with riotous energy. In them, Jean Dubuffet's idea of making an art raw enough to stand up to the chaos of the street comes home to roost. Every Grooms surface pullulates with caricatural figures, each impacted with manic cartoony verve, rendered as layered plywood cutouts, as silhouettes, as stuffed dolls, as shadows. The detail is never hard to read, and one does not get lost in it, because Grooms sticks...
...Post article was most distressing, and not merely because it was in the Metro section next to a piece about cuts in real estate taxes in Arlington, Va. What rankled marchers was the epithet " '60s-Style Protest." The implication was clear. Aren't all those students with long hair and tie-dyed shirts just nostalgic for an era when drugs were cheap, sex was easy and it was cool to skip classes and shout slogans about our immoral government, parents and universities...