Word: shorthanded
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...shorthand journalism to define each decade by a catchphrase--the Roaring Twenties, the swingin' '60s, the Me decade '70s. Five years into the 21st century, we're in trouble. The current decade doesn't even have a nickname (the zeros? the aughts? the uh-ohs?), let alone a cultural personality. And Hollywood isn't helping. The film industry, especially in the four-month peak-viewing period called summer, rarely tries squarely addressing Zeitgeist anxieties. Instead it ransacks its attic for sequels, spin-offs and, this year, remakes. You don't look forward to many of the new season's blockbuster...
...allegedly disturbing social order and damaging the city's image. The announcement was quickly followed by an editorial in the local Communist Party mouthpiece Liberation Daily labeling the demonstrations over Japan's perceived unwillingness to atone for its brutal wartime past an "evil plot" meant "to achieve hidden goals"?shorthand often used by the Party to mean antigovernment activity. Meanwhile, the Shanghai Public Security Bureau website posted wanted-style pictures of protesters?including of one woman giggling as she hurled a tomato?requesting citizens with any information on the rioters to "contact the police in order to maintain Shanghai...
...increasingly convinced that hordes of murderous undead little girls roam Hollywood, feasting upon unwary directors. How else to explain their prevalence, and the shorthand for creepiness they represent, in films from “The Ring” to “The Others” to the remake of “The Amityville Horror?...
And—most pertinently for us—in recent thrillers, “Harvard” functions as convenient shorthand for “skeptic” and “snob.” Robert Langdon, hero of The Da Vinci Code, is a “Harvard symbologist.” NBC’s forthcoming miniseries based on the Book of Revelation (and catchily entitled Revelations—I can’t wait!) features a skeptical Harvard astrophysicist, Professor Richard Massey. All of this augurs well, we feel, for the success of our novel...
...shorthand was so short that when we got to the set we were almost monosyllabic. In an ideal way, not in a noncommunicative way. We didn't have to say very much, and that's how it should be. You have to resist the temptation to talk stuff out a lot. And I try to encourage other actors to do it too, without any cruelty...