Word: pointedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this case was only the most recent in a long series of homophobic incidents, which happened to be used as a jumping-off point for making the gay community message about discrimination known. The merits of the specific case should be seen as having little to do with the merits of the gay community's claims...
True, we do not know for a fact whether the gay student did physically harass the other individual, but this is the point. How can one at this point attribute the reaction wholly or at least primarily to homophobia when it is distinctly possible that...
...Mather dance and kiss-in, to blame homophobia for the reaction to the questionable judgement of a gay student in making his sexual advances and to the questionable selection of a means of protest seems--if anything--to exacerbate tensions and paranoias on campus by trying to point to a monster when, at worst, only a shadow is visible here...
That bizarre scenario might seem impossible for even a semiotician to duplicate. But guess again. Eco has produced another novel, Foucault's Pendulum, which has sold more than half a million copies in Italy since it was published last October and at one point outsold the next highest best seller by 15 to 1. Translation rights have been assigned in 24 countries, and an English version by William Weaver will be published in the U.S. next October. Once again the Italian press has orchestrated what it calls Ecomania with cries of delight and outrage. One newspaper praised Foucault's Pendulum...
...what his mysterious novel is all about. "This was a book conceived to irritate the reader," he says in his drafty university office, lighting up another of the 60 cigarettes he puffs every day. "I knew it would provoke ambiguous, nonhomogeneous responses because it was a book conceived to point up some contradictions...