Word: epitheted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what you can do for your cousin, but what you can do for his magazine,'' the congressman said at a press conference in Chelsea, Mass., parodying Uncle John's famous inaugural epithet. Touch?...
...course, this was a laugh line. Back then, plastics was the reigning symbol for everything that was ersatz in American life, for the phoniness and stifling conformity of the adult world Benjamin was being asked to join. The word itself was an epithet, as in "Plastic Pat" Nixon or these Jimi Hendrix lyrics from the song If 6 Was 9, talked-sung with a straight face and an up-the-Establishment disregard for grammar: "White collared conservative flashing down the street,/Pointing their plastic finger...
...environmental movement is..." Werbach pauses, searching for an epithet. "Mature," he finally says, with distaste. To appeal to Gen X, it must focus on local action, with an accent on multiculturalism. "When I started the Sierra Student Coalition, I took s___ for selling out to a white organization," Werbach says. "It is not just about Yosemite and the beauty of the wilderness. It is about cities--the air we breathe and the water we drink. When I speak in urban grade schools, their No. 1 issue is the rain forest! That is disempowering, when these communities are surrounded by incinerators...
...previous position as a drama critic for The Times earned him the nickname "The Butcher of Broad-way" for his harsh analyses--an epithet to which he referred laughingly during his talk...
...Harvard, you never hear a racial epithet, but then again, you never see blacks and whites together like you do in the South," he added...