Word: epithetic
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...less abusive word than "bitch," Newt Gingrich might not have been thrown off-message on the biggest day of his political life. Long after the debate is over about whether Connie Chung should have broadcast Kathleen Gingrich's recollection of what her son thought of the First Lady, the epithet of choice against uppity women will hang in the air, a reminder that women have not come such a long way. Like the word penis (before one was cut off), bitch (before the Speaker's mother used it) seldom found its way onto the nightly news. It was too sexual...
...Detective Mark Fuhrman. Fuhrman found and collected several key items of evidence in the case, including a bloody glove on Simpson's estate. Defense attorneys have accused Fuhrman of bias against Simpson. Today the prosecution sought to bar the defense team from asking whether Fuhrman ever used the racial epithet "nigger." Deputy District Attorney Chris Darden, referring to "the n-word," said the use of the word in the trial would "blind the jury. It'll blind the truth. They won't be able to discern what's true and what's not." This elicited an angry response from defense...
...specific student was targeted," Co-Master Sandra A. Naddaff '75 said. "The name was followed by the epithet, 'nigger...
...seems to me that Mansfield is struggling. It's been a while since he's said anything truly outlandish. Long past are the days of alleged links between affirmative action and grade inflation, or the charge that homosexuals undermine civilization, or even the epithet "little lady's sewing circle," that he bestowed on the Committee on Women's Studies a couple of years back. Granted, it would be unfair to expect the professor to be quite so provocative all the time (though his old friend Camille Paglia seems to be having a bit more luck). But calling the Harvard faculty...
...attempts, with hilarious awkwardness, to court Elaine (Leslie Yahia), the dancer with the decidedly anti-romantic epithet of "Carnival Girl." In one scene, The Chairman, having had his lady love drugged and thrown into a box to be transported to his lair, asks sweetly, "Why so frosty...