Word: shorthanded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lovesick Moore brought many touches from his own experience: he spent 17 years in the office of one shrink or another, trying to come to terms with a childhood that was more than unhappy. His father was a railway electrician, his mother was a shorthand typist, and he grew up in a poor, row-house neighborhood in the London suburb of Dagenham. But poverty was not the problem: it was a clubfoot and a skinny, slightly shorter left leg, which sent him in and out of hospitals from the age of two weeks on. "Psychologically it was made harrowing...
...last stanza center Randy Bucyk scored a shorthand goal to tie the game. And then at 13:13, Husky center Greg Neary sent a slow dribbler towards the left-hand corner of the Terrier twines. In one of his less than brilliant moments, Daskalakis tried to cover the shot, and as he wrestled with it, the puck slid under his arm and into the net to give N.U. a lead it never relinquished...
...reason for quoting it. But Jacobs' chief reason for quoting Allen, other than to remind us and herself how great he is, seems to be convenience. Rather than describe articulately what sets one "period" or theme in the work off from another. Jacob tends to rely on a shorthand composed of repeated, encapsulated jokes. "Needing the eggs" is her analytic code for a type of humor she never defines, but which can be deduced to be the sober, questing, wistful quality in Allen that sends him harking after illusions. Likewise, the Take the Money and Run gag in which inept...
...through her book. She is also an acute observer of dance audiences, their gusty enthusiasms and fads. Because collecting performances is addictive, all dance fans, however august, have a little of the groupie in them, and Croce is no exception. She observes herself falling into a groupie's shorthand way of burbling about the New York City Ballet: "The Great Saratoga Chaconne; The Diamonds of Saturday Night Closing Weekend." There is a witty tribute to groupies called "Ballet Alert," about the New York telephone service that tells fans of last-minute program and cast switches. The service...
...hearts are usually a symptom of automation, which takes the edge off the romance. The monotone Sam Spade narration also becomes ridiculous and does little to characterize a hero who relies on frequent drunken debauches to reveal his emotional depth. The poor guy is clearly troubled, but the theatrical shorthand of empty, albeit exotic, liquor bottles and frequent comments about how lousy it is to be a killer do not elicit empathy...