Word: slurs
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...shared her bed; now he sees a way he can help Rita and, always more important, himself. She's in danger of losing her job because she said no to one of J.J.'s rivals, Leo Bartha. Sidney needs a third columnist, Otis Elwell (David White), to print the slur about Dallas, thus currying J.J.'s favor. So when Elwell also promises to get the cigarette girl her job back, Sidney pimps Rita to him. The three of them wind up in Sidney's office, with Elwell uttering the oldest line in his little black book: "Don't I know...
...ploy than the one Pantheon Books devised for Harvard law professor Randall Kennedy's new work, which arrived in bookstores last week. In the transparent hope of stirring up a publicity-grabbing fuss, it gave the book a one-word title that happens to be the most odious racial slur in the English language. The scheme has already produced the desired effect, triggering a string of giddy newspaper articles. Among them: a New York Times profile in which Kennedy's editor, Erroll McDonald, gushed that his motive wasn't to boost sales but to make people "chill and realize...
Bush himself has not made the situation any better. Commenting on the standoff Monday, he referred to the residents of Pakistan as “Pakis,” a strong ethnic slur. Although the White House later explained that the use of the word was inadvertent, the slip is indicative of the level of attention the Bush administration has given the escalating situation. Effective diplomacy requires words that are chosen carefully, and small missteps can undo the work of days of negotiations. Musharraf was one of four world leaders whose names Bush could not recall during the campaign...
...night was sneaked into Afghanistan by a member of the Saudi Arabian religious police. Bin Laden says of the hijackers, "They made the whole world listen to them whether Arab or non-Arab or slaves or Chinese. Better than millions of books, tapes or booklets." Slaves is an Arabic slur for "blacks...
...love for him. This was Harry Warren, the Italian-born song-plugger who became Hollywood's top song-maker. In 1944, during the Allied air assault on Germany, Warren snapped, "They bombed the wrong Berlin." Edward Jablonski, Berlin's biographer and a confidant for many years, attributes the slur to jealousy "at a time when Warren's own Hollywood career was in decline." This is way off: Warren had five #1 songs in the 40s (including "Chattanooga Choo-Choo" and "On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe"); Berlin had only one (all right, it was "White Christmas," but still...) Besides...