performance murder

Benjamin Zimmer bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU
Sat Feb 20 07:30:17 UTC 2010


Possible WOTY consideration for a grisly new term from Dave Cullen on
Slate, in reference to Joseph Stack's intentional airplane crash into
the Austin IRS building:

http://www.slate.com/id/2245337/

Evidently modeled on "performance art".


--Ben Zimmer

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