Word: shorthanded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time that messes up both J.W. and the movie. Robertson trots out the usual herd of metaphors for contemporary alienation. When J.W. facetiously gives his address as " 1313 Luck Road," it comes out sounding smug and pompous because the rest of the film deals too literally in such symbolic shorthand, as in the goring episode...
...secretaries -nearly all women, many underutilized and underpaid-would seem to be ideal recruits for Women's Liberation. Yet few so far have joined the cause. Nevertheless, with new pages being turned almost everywhere else, some are being flipped over in shorthand notebooks...
...P.L.K.-an irreverent shorthand for "Plucky Little King" used by Western diplomats in Amman-is not bending under the boycott. "I think we are soldiering on quite happily," he told Scott. "The intention was to create discontent but it is having the opposite effect. Our people are more united than they have ever been. We will accept no form of interference in our internal affairs from any quarter." Indeed, the boycott is showing some cracks. Iraq once again permits Alia overflights and recently backed down and allowed Jordan Valley tomatoes into Baghdad, because the price of local products had gone...
...years, Nigel John Davies has been a builder's laborer, a bodyguard, a fairgrounds boxer, an assistant at a beauty parlor, a bet taker at a London bookmaking shop, a salesman of nudie films, a shorthand typist, a paint stripper, a bric-a-brac salesman at the Chelsea antique market, and an interior decorator. He has also been unemployed. But all that was before he met a pencil-thin 15-year-old named Lesley Hornby and said: "You're like a twig. I'll call you Twiggy...
THAT statement, fanciful as it sounds, is simply a shorthand way of saying that everyone is a creature of myth, that the ancient legends and tales of the race are still the master keys to the human psyche. The science-minded Victorians who sneered at myths as superstitious twaddle were guilty of a kind of scientific superstition themselves: the belief that reason could explain all human motives. Aided by psychoanalysis, anthropology and three-quarters of a century of archaeological discovery, modern...