Word: epithets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
Young crusaders rail against those Asian-Americans who don't share their belief in saber-rattling as the way to realize progress. They use the label "apathetic" as their epithet of choice: "If you don't agree with us, you're just apathetic and unconcerned...
...several varieties of his trademark sociopath, and part musing in his own voice about the price of fame and about how the world seems to be going to hell just when he is getting rich enough to enjoy it. His command of language, including the rhythms of scatology and epithet, sometimes soars to the level of David Mamet, and his mutations are always convincing without any need for props or disguises...
Yesterday, cold warrior was a liberal epithet. Today everyone pretends to have been one. My father, who had a Frenchman's appreciation for cynicism, had a term for this kind of after-battle resume revision. Maquis d'apres-guerre: resistance fighter, postwar...