Word: epithets
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...Dick novel Flow My Blood the Policeman Said, which examines the links between semiotics and the DJ culture. The name “Spooky” refers to the eerie interplay between the absence and presence of sound, whereas his “That Subliminal Kid” epithet refers to a character from William S. Burroughs’ Nova Express...
Still, despite his attempts to apologize and sort out the conflicts, the positive reputation he tried to establish in Washington was quickly gutted and his “bull in a china-shop” image—an epithet first uttered by West on a radio talk show—was firmly established...
While de la Durantaye recognizes that being a hipster can sometimes be useful, he rejects the epithet for himself...
While de la Durantaye recognizes that being a hipster can sometimes be useful, he rejects the epithet for himself...
...Shakespeare of the sound-byte, the sucker punch, the hyperbolic epithet. His 1994 Rolling Stone obituary for Richard Nixon, whom he loathed, was titled “He Was a Crook”; his catchphrase was “Fear and Loathing.” With language, he was a fetishist, a libertine, drunk on whiskey and the utter extravagance of his writing...