Word: slurs
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Epstein, Marcus •2007 assault on African-American woman - he stopped her on a Washington, D.C. street, uttered a racial slur, and karate-chopped her head - is pleaded guilty...
...years, I ask nothing more than to relax without the incessant chatter of young ’uns, brimming with energy for no explicable reason. They will arrive, seeking pleasure on a Saturday night, and might even take sherry to the point of wooziness: for shame! They will then slur their speech and stumble about in an unrefined manner. An utter disgrace to this university! These troublemakers remain out until all hours of the night (I have seen them frolicking about past the 9 o’clock hour), when all decent individuals have long since retired for the evening...
...elitist’ is another word for ‘arrogant,’ which is another word for ‘uppity’”—claiming, ergo, that any word synonymous with a synonym of a racial slur is a racial slur...
...Street Journal, and tied himself with sausage links to the doors of a Chase Manhattan bank wearing only a skirt made of cash and urging passersby to pluck the bills away. Last Thursday, the Peter Ivers Visiting Artist at the Office for the Arts brought seven crying, spitting, racial slur-shouting baby heads to the Carpenter Center in “Corbu Pops,” a performance that was both humorous and disquieting.William Pope.L is a multidisciplinary artist known for his work in performance and public interventionist art which often deals with themes of race and consumerism. Influenced...
...surely merits one of those Life Achievement Awards the Academy passes out to distinguished film folk who never won a competitive Oscar and might die soon. (Recent honorary Oscars have gone to Robert Altman, Sidney Lumet and composer Ennio Moricone.) The slur stings any Jerry Lewis fan - especially Jerry Lewis. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Lewis explained the hurt: "Because they didn't think enough of my work. Because what I did didn't command consideration because it's slapstick, because it's lowbrow, because the Academy's always been cautious about comedy...