Word: slurs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...khaki chorus line brandishing rifles to a rhythm-and-blues beat. The show climaxes with Saint Jean burning at the stake for her ideals, torch courtesy of the FBI. Jean Seberg opened this month with a couple of champions and more detractors among the London critics. The most telling slur has come from Hall's alma mater, the R.S.C., whose own musical, the satirical pantomime Poppy, has begun a successful commercial run. At one point in the show, the actors encourage the audience to join in song and add a threat: "Anyone who doesn't sing along gets...
Democratic party leaders dutifully pronounced their outrage at the latest Administration slur. But few even took the time to rebuke Meese with specifics. Most forgot to point out, for example, that some 20 million Americans depend on food stamps to eat and that tens of thousands more--who don't qualify for federal assistance thanks to the Administration's draconian eligibility requirements--have been forced into soup kitchens. But it must have been party politics that prevented Democrats from giving Reagan's men credit for being so egalitarian about whom they go about alienating...
...addition, the BSU demanded that the administration investigate two other isolated incidents that appeared to have racist overtones: a poster that had been scrawled with what appeared to be a racist slur, and a prank involving several freshman that may have had racist overtones...
...yacht race, and the Yanks are taking it with all the grace of a baby deprived of its rattle. I am sure that most Americans do not give a damn about the race or the "tin pot" that is the prize, but I wonder how they feel about the slur this episode places on the name of Americans and their country...
...residents and the decline of traditional businesses. "Progress," says Gibson, "is maintaining the status quo." Moreover, black mayors often attract limelight that leaves them less margin for unnoticed error. Grouses Hatcher: "Blacks still don't have the right to fail as whites do without its becoming a slur on the black race...