Word: jargoning
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...serviceable and often illuminating catalog, reinforced by scores of sidebars on dance, music, film and dozens of other subjects not amenable to gallery treatment, written by no fewer than 22 other contributors. Practically nowhere does this 400-page tome show a trace of the poxy French-colonial, theoretical jargon whose "discourse" has disfigured so many other museum publications (including the Whitney's) in the past 15 years, and that is a great mercy...
From 1985 to 1991, according to well-informed sources, Sylvia Lee, a native Chinese speaker who held a support-staff job at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, reported to FBI agents about visiting delegations of PRC scientists. She was not an "operational asset," jargon for paid informant, sources say, but a volunteer who passed along what she heard and saw at social confabs arranged for foreign visitors. Senior counterintelligence hands didn't consider her reports particularly useful. In 1991, after her agent contact retired and she moved to a job that provided little access to foreign visitors, the Albuquerque...
...People's Republic of China. From 1985 to 1991, according to well-informed sources, Sylvia Lee, a native Chinese speaker who held a support-staff job at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, reported to FBI agents about visiting delegations of PRC scientists. She was not an "operational asset," jargon for paid informant, sources say, but a volunteer who passed along what she heard and saw at social confabs arranged for foreign visitors. Senior counterintelligence hands didn't consider her reports particularly useful. In 1991, after her agent contact retired and she moved to a job that provided little access...
...ammunition depot in Kosovo. Milliseconds after the bomb strike, the video showed a large explosion. And then an almost imperceptible snake of flame sneaked outward to a nearby building and triggered a blast so bright and hot it turned the infrared video image from night to day. In pilot jargon, the big bang was a "secondary"--a sign that targeters had picked a site loaded with combustible stuff...
...wonder that the most peripatetic spewers of jargon-laiden gender-studies goo have Ph.D.s in literature? Just what makes a literary scholar so qualified to study sex difference in real life...