Word: epitheted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from New York City to call Senate candidate Kay Bailey Hutchison a "female impersonator." Actress Annie Potts of Designing Women pooh-poohed the Republican's vague stance on abortion rights, saying, "She's just the same old thing in a skirt." Columnist Molly Ivins hung the epithet "Breck girl" on her, comparing the way the candidate tossed her blond hair to the slow-motion antics of models in the shampoo commercial. But Hutchison, the Texas state treasurer, survived those and many other attacks. Last week she defeated Democrat Bob Krueger, winning the seat vacated in January by Lloyd Bentsen...
...from conservatives, escalated into national news after Hackney's nomination. Israeli-born freshman Eden Jacobowitz was charged with racial harassment and threatened with probation for yelling, "Shut up, you water buffalo!" at a group of boisterous black women students outside his dorm. He denied any bigotry in the odd epithet, pointing out that it is Hebrew slang for an inconsiderate fool. On May 24, as the campus churned over the controversy, the women dropped the charges, but only after blasting the school for injustice...
Philip Roth the imposter, however, seems to exist. Roth the character calles him Moishe Pipik (Moses Bellybutton) in a mock Yiddish epithet. Chasing Pipik around Israel. Roth finds out that the double has been spreading a gospel of "Diasporism"--he counsels Ashkenazi Jews to return to Eastern Europe to avoid another Holocaust at the hands of Arabs. Pipik had already met secretly with Lech Walesa and was trying to meet with the Pope using Roth's name...
...truth in Philiadelphia came to Jacobowitz's aid. Dr. Elijah Anderson, a sociology professor and expert on Black culture submitted that he had never heard "water buffalo" used as a slur. The director of Penn's Afro-American studies program also agreed that "water buffalo" was not a epithet he was familiar with...
...marked contrast to what Yeltsin had been saying only a few weeks earlier. In conversations with his own aides and at least one Western diplomat, he had dismissed the Arkansas Governor as too young, too inexperienced and -- get this -- too much of a "socialist." That's a peculiar epithet from someone who, until two years ago, was a card- carrying communist; but now that Russia has repudiated Karl Marx and embraced Adam Smith, its leader is apparently susceptible to Republican propaganda about Democrats...