Word: skanking
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...cougar” cannot even claim originality as its saving grace. Feline metaphors—fox, puma, pussy—have long been applied to female sexuality. “Cougar” is merely the latest epithet in a long tradition of verbal constructs—slut, skank, whore—that construe women as sub-human sexual objects. Urban Dictionary defines the cougar in terms of the sexual stimulation that she provides to men and her lack of emotional attachment: Cougars “don’t expect you to call the next day, and don?...
...best to make his leading lady look good. He gave her an alliterative, movie-star name and devised costumes, lighting tricks and cagey camera angles to hide her abdominal scar, a memento from an earlier car wreck. Linda was no goddess, but neither was she your standard porno skank; she was slim and freckled, and her inexperience on screen played like freshness, innocence. Moreover, the movie itself had such an easygoing good nature that audiences could enjoy it without feeling dirty - more startled and amused...
...Coulter to sit safely behind her Mac, buzzing on Nicorette in the wee hours and inventing new insults for Ted Kennedy and Osama Bin Laden. But no American public intellectual would dare read Coulter's polemics so closely as some read Fallaci. Instead, they prefer to call her a "skank," as essayist James Wolcott...
...Hopera” and ccc’s “Revolved.” Otherwise, I just put iTunes on party shuffle and see what comes up: obscure musicals (“Blood Brothers”), Patsy Cline, the Yonder Mountain String Band, a Brazilian band called Skank, the Pillows, the Notre Dame Glee Club, the fabulousness that is 80s pop, a gay country duo called Y’ALL... My aunt and uncle are musicians (my aunt Kristi Rose started out in the New York rockabilly scene in the mid-80s; my uncle Fats Kaplin plays fiddle, guitar...
...finally, I asked that she be serious. I wanted to see the rancor that allegedly is her sole contribution to public discourse (that and being a "lying liar," in Al Franken's estimation, as well as a "telebimbo" [Salon] and a "skank," according to a blog kept by Vanity Fair's James Wolcott). Why, I asked, did she enjoy attacking others and being attacked...