Word: wop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gives them new energy through the tension between her voice and her searing guitar accompaniment. Her version of the Steve Stills song "Bluebird" (which has been turning up on WRKO lately) rocks and stomps without a let-up through a great Fifties rock sax break and a doo-wop vocal arrangement that elicits a whole new mood from the song...
...national character than the ritualized tea ceremony is to that of the Japanese. Wyke is very pukka. Tindle is half Italian with a half-Jewish father. Wyke can be loftily amusing about this ("Some of my best friends are half-Jews"), but he can also spit with rage ("a wop, a yid, a not-one-of-me face"). This is a seething ethnic confrontation and it gives Sleuth a core of passion that most mysteries, and all too many plays, lack...
...sued his employers for $110,000. The California court upheld his right to seek damages from a lower court on that basis. Wrote Justice Louis Burke: "Al though the slang epithet 'nigger' may once have been in common usage, along with such other racial characterizations as 'wop,' 'chink,' 'jap,' 'bohunk' or 'shanty Irish,' the former expression has be come particularly abusive and insulting in light of recent developments in the civ il rights movement...
However, none of this stops tough Tony, who, once in court, comes up with more tricks than Charles Goren on a good night. When he isn't busy popping the classy sheriff for calling him a "Wop," or telling someone else to "screw of" (Furie believes in up-date, gutsy dialogue), he manages to find time to win a new trial after the first one results in a second-degree murder verdict. From that point on, it's Agatha Christie time...