Word: sobriquets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...choking or suffocating her 6-lb. 6-oz. son, Drexler returned to the floor of her high school formal dance in Aberdeen Township, N.J., where she ate some salad and danced with her boyfriend. Six months later, Drexler, now 19 and known outside her immediate circle by the tabloid sobriquet Prom Mom, is by most accounts maintaining her outward poise. Says a friend, Tim Hoban: "She seems pretty normal...
...Scandal. Illicit activities. There. Now you're reading...or at least that's what the newspapers would lead you to believe. Tabloids like the National Enquirer and The Star make their money from tawdry journalism--if yellow journalism was the sobriquet for sketchy political writing and slightly unconventional reporting style, their writing would best be labeled red, for ignominy. The screaming headlines and conspiratorial accusations and the near voyeuristic exposes of public peoples' private lives make a mockery of the profession and of the noble possibilities of a free press...
...York, Harvey and Bob got into film distribution, making their rep with the 1989 hits sex, lies, and videotape and My Left Foot. Often they saw themselves as custom tailors, trimming foreign films to make them more accessible to U.S. audiences and earning the elder brother the withering sobriquet "Harvey Scissorhands...
...former political science professor Wellstone proved that his '90 election was no fluke, and also that there is a place in the Senate for an old-fashioned liberal. He was the only incumbent Senator up for re-election who voted against the welfare-reform bill, thus earning him the sobriquet "Senator Welfare" in Republican attack ads. Wellstone, for his part, portrayed the former two-term Republican Senator as a puppet of special interests who voted against an increase in the minimum wage and for a pay raise for Senators. The incumbent, whose crusade for stricter ethical standards in Congress...
...expects Archer-Daniels- Midland to change its advertising slogan from "Supermarket to the World" to "Price Fixer to the World." But that sobriquet would fit in the wake of the agribusiness giant's $100 million plea bargain last week with the Justice Department...