Word: epithet
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...have a systematic program for reading publications like TIME," says Pickett, "looking for examples of new words and new uses of old words." This knowledge is unsettling. Take "pizza face," a hurtful name once hurled at me as an acne-afflicted teen. Never do I want to see this epithet enshrined in a major dictionary, and yet by using it, as I just did, I've probably guaranteed its inclusion in the next edition...
...will produce a 209-page report pillorying the Clinton administration for its handling of Russia. The main target? Al Gore, who gets two chapters all to himself - one concerning the bilateral commission he chaired with former Russian prime minister and Gazprom magnate Viktor Chernomyrdin, the other on the "barnyard epithet" Gore reportedly scrawled across a CIA report alleging Chernomyrdin's corrupt activities. These are part of a broader pattern of administration errors that have brought warm U.S.-Russian relations in 1992 to a frosty atmosphere now, the report alleges...
...worst fears about the candidate: that he was old, had old policies and was running a faltering campaign. The same might be said here too for Bush. The ad makes him look underhanded and excessively juvenile in a frat-boy kind of way. Coming after last week's barnyard epithet, it makes the "change the tone, bring honor and dignity" crusade look a little thin...
Many of the country's biggest papers did Bush a favor, toning down his comments with a few well-placed dashes. A few, however, relayed the epithet in all its original glory. Here's a quick guide...
...rough-around-the-edges tabloid went a bit schizophrenic in its coverage: In a box dissecting the candidates' Labor Day activities, the Post printed "asshole" in its early editions, although not in the larger article describing the flub. In a reprint of the box, editors substituted "a------" for the epithet...