Word: jargoning
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...causes and voting against hit-listed liberals without knowing clearly why they think they should. George Orwell once remarked that bad politics derives from improper and insincere use of language. Viguerie's political language is the antithesis of bureaucratese, instead of a belligerent self-centeredness suppressed in the liberal jargon of the well intentioned Seventies, and, unfortunately, one of the most influential hustles in American politics today...
...detergents, dishwashing liquids, hairsprays, etc., that she can't live without--Tomlin is this year's model of Suzy Homemaker. Struggling to maintain an efficient, happy household, Pat Kramer is the confused, vaguely liberated woman; her license plate reads MS. MOM, Well-versed in pop culture and self-improvement jargon, Pat wants to be the Complete Woman, the mother-lover-maid with her own personal space and identity and everything else Phil Donahue's guests tell her she should be. Of course, nobody really appreciates or notices Pat, until she begins to shrink and becomes an instant celebrity, with...
...screenwriter with a fondness for money and American boys. Wood gives each one his brief theatrical moment and tries to build an act out of a few comic situations (like Joe's constant run-ins with his assistant, Wesley) that can't last very long. He captures the movie jargon well ("be my file, Wes"; "we have to conceptualize a film here") but carries each joke just too far; the action, lacking any internal coherence, degenerates into a string of forced jokes...
...decade. Night March, by Tim O'Brien, is a solid bit of realism about a young soldier in Viet Nam from the author's award-winning novel, Going After Cacciato. John Sayles' I-80 Nebraska, M.490-M.205 is a mannered attempt to turn truckers and their CB jargon into folk legend: the headless horseman as Teamster. The most inventive topical piece is Guy Davenport's The Richard Nixon Freischutz Rag, a whimsical satire in which the former President makes small talk in China. Sample...
Operating out of unknown terminals, possibly hundreds of miles away, the intruders had tapped into-or "accessed," in computer jargon-one of the company's computers. Even worse, they had actually "seized control" of the electronic brain, blocking the network's legitimate users from getting on line, and were systematically destroying data. The raids continued for more than a week. During one foray, 10 million "bits" of information, almost one-fifth of the computer's storage capacity, were temporarily lost...