Word: shorthanders
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...alfalfa-dry, determinedly subjectless and mostly meritless efforts by the Academy of the Left. The leavening in their dull, predictable company was provided by a few comparatively young and little-known painters with a sense of self. Honolulu's Ben Norris translated mountains into a jagged, energetic shorthand that almost soared. Boston's Lawrence Kupferman reduced a tide-pool to a rich swirling pattern that looked like yellow marble...
...looking for: a big hole in the ground, 20 feet wide and four feet deep, full of charred paper. He began poking around, soon plucked out a sheaf of papers that had escaped the flames. What he held in his hand, said the German stenographers, was a complete shorthand record of one of Hitler's twice-daily wartime conferences with his staff chiefs...
Producer Robert Sparks never seems quite clear what he is about and Scenarist Frank Fenton has written much of the lovers' dialogue in a symbolic shorthand that adds to the general confusion of motive. As a result, what began with a provocative situation soon degenerates into some routine chase sequences and ends with a mawkish off-to-prison finale...
...entries were among the hardest to decipher. John Marin's seascape sketches and Karl Knaths's penciled still lifes seemed little more than shorthand notes made for the artists' convenience...
...Shorthand Helps...