Word: shorthand
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think it's important that we look not with labels, not with shorthand terms, not with partisan politics but with good, hard-nosed common sense, that we make sure we fund what we think can work so that we don't do it halfway...
...there. But in contrast to the blow-by-blow account of the operation, the rest of McClintick's story -- Navarro's escape from the U.S., her capture and (probably) illegal extradition for trial from Venezuela, Darias' misadventures as an unhappy witness -- is told in a kind of tired, cryptic shorthand. Darias had the street-smarts to tape his agents as well as his marks. McClintick, who was widely praised for his 1982 Hollywood expose, Indecent Exposure, uses the transcripts of those conversations in such numbing detail that he seemingly ran out of pages to conclude the narrative properly...
...mezzanine all faces are equal. But the movie camera, that meticulous voyeur, is no respecter of technique. Its X-ray eye scans an actor's face for a fineness or boldness of line. Because most movies are illustrated fables, the camera wants faces that communicate -- in the immediate emotional shorthand of a close-up -- the character's pedigree to the audience. So film stardom is often the luck of the genetic draw...
...whole room. It consists of a few canvases (actually bed frames covered with muslin) adorned with elegant arabesques burned into them with hot irons. The branding irons, 55 of them, hang from the ceiling. The squiggles they produce, one learns from the wall label, are in fact Gregg shorthand symbols, by which means the artists have filled the canvas with replications of multiple-choice answers from a survey on sexual behavior -- "More than once a week. Once a week. Two-three times a month . . ." Rarely has such a prolonged setup been followed by such a dim punch line...
With Lake, Berger's relationship is more one of an alter ego than a subordinate. Berger was sufficiently self-effacing to bring Lake into the campaign as his boss, and the two ended up co-directing foreign policy for Clinton with remarkable harmony. "Almost in shorthand, we can argue things through, and at the end neither of us has kept score," says Lake...