Word: jargoning
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Gender Freedom. Ms. also contains a bristly, jargon-loaded attack on sexist child rearing by Author Letty Cottin Pogrebin (How to Make It in a Man's World). She roundly condemns "sex-stereotyped" toys, books, games and emotions (girls are "cuddled," boys "rough-housed") that reinforce "role rigidity" and inhibit "gender freedom." Pogrebin takes TV commercials particularly to task for imparting to children the dictum that ruggedness makes the man and prettiness the woman...
...lifeless body that Updike employs to suggest the deadness of Rabbit's own existence. Janice still has her special little knack for attracting attention. "I'm searching for a valid identity and I suggest you do the same," she tells Rabbit in her best TV talk-show jargon. Her search has led her to the bed and board of Charlie Stavros, a car salesman at her father's Toyota agency...
...Luke might have left his wife and children without ever touching the dice. Even when the plot dawdles, Rhinehart's language and humor exert their wiles. Though he leans more to wisecrack than to wit, he gets off fine mimicrys of TV talk shows, journalistic deepthink and professorial psychoanalytic jargon. Between sheets (the book is copiously copulative), Rhinehart works up a positively Joycean lather-blather...
...expensive in the U.S. and other markets, few nations have allowed the full change to occur. Even after many world currencies were floated against the dollar in August, governments instructed central banks to buy the dollar with their own currencies if their value rose above certain limits. In the jargon of international finance, such maneuvers constitute a "dirty float." What Connally did was to ask the governments to allow international traders, investors and tourists to perform-for the time being, at least-a "clean...
...scotch with water "but no ice," he introduced himself as "Roger Smith, a professor of social sciences." He noted that he was an American scholar studying the aftereffects of the "Prague Spring" and the Soviet invasion. With a heavy Slavic accent, he lapsed for several minutes into part sociological jargon, part hilariously outdated American slang, last heard in 1930 movies...