It's an epithet that would trail him his entire career.

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Actress Nicole Kidman refused to use an offensive racial epithet in a film when requested to do so by its director, her British co-star has revealed.

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If all else fails, and redefining an unpromising area seems impossible, simple use of the epithet "up-and-coming" should satisfy.

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