Word: jargonizing
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...briefing paper hints at the main line: yes, you might pay more, but we are offering security. You could not be turned down for insurance, dropped or forced to pay a higher ! premium even if you have AIDS, cancer or some other "pre-existing condition," in the insurance jargon. You could not lose your insurance or have it reduced because you are fired or laid off, or because your company goes bankrupt or because you quit to look for a better job; your benefits will be portable. "The health-security button is the one we're pushing," says a White...
Keno learned all about the system by hanging out in the subway dispatcher's office in Brooklyn, where he picked up the transit jargon and befriended motormen. Keno, stocky and stout, convinced one of them, Regoberto Sabio, that he was a 25-year-old motorman, and would ride Sabio's route with him. "He didn't show me an ID card or anything like that," Sabio later told a reporter, "but there was nothing in his mannerisms that made me think he was anything but another motorman." By riding with Sabio, Keno learned firsthand how to drive the trains, what...
...talk down to readers, and using jargon always means talking down...
...Michigan, and it's hard to pronounce. The program contains a pretentious page-long explanation of the play's theoretical underpinnings, and the symmetrical set is stark save for two identical posters of a baboon. The production is consistent with these trappings, projecting a private sphere of highly abstracted jargon that probably only people involved in the production fully understand. But with a little effort, Oppenheimer's dense, seemingly disparate symbolism can slide into place for the audience...
...Louvre. Like some benign capo, he has called in all his markers at once in a virtuoso display of accumulated borrowing power. His contributing art historians, from Alessandro Ballarin to Konrad Oberhuber, provide clear and scholarly catalog essays; no serious French catalog would dream of using the jargon so popular now in American academe...