Word: shorthand
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It’s an ambitious ideology, considering the scope of the titular Silk Road. The term is shorthand for an intricate system of trade routes that stretched from Japan to the Mediterranean, with stops throughout Central Asia and the Middle East, from roughly 1600 B.C.E. until 8th century...
...would if I needed a quick shorthand and I didn?t have time to explain the nuances. Personally, I would describe what I do as romantic comedies and light comic contemporary fiction...
...edge of Southern music: a danceable, rapid-fire, bass-heavy rap (frequently blended with R&B) called crunk, fine-tuned and marketed by loud, gold-toothed former DJ Lil Jon and popularized partly through his massive and spectacularly vulgar hit Get Low. His music--along with the crunk (Southern shorthand for "cranked up," as in increased volume; it also alludes to getting crazy drunk) label--has made its way through every city block to the hip-hop mainstream...
Does he know shorthand? As a cleric urged worshippers at Tehran University last week to "make America angry," SEAN PENN jotted down notes for his real-life column in the San Francisco Chronicle. (And no, it's not a humor column.) Penn, who visited Iraq in 2003 for the Chronicle, was in Iran in advance of the country's elections this week. We invite the Oscar winner to give his all to this whole reporter thing when he returns to the U.S. We would also like to see Ted Koppel in a thriller...
...Xenon." Xenon is Microsoft's private code name for the Xbox 360, and "The Book of Xenon" spells out the company's entire strategy for it. Large chunks of "The Book of Xenon" deal with something it calls the D.E.L., which stands for the Digital Entertainment Lifestyle. This is shorthand for the notion that all media--movies, music, games, cameras, phones, TV--are becoming digital media, and that's changing how we relate to them and how they relate to one another. They're merging into a single integrated, portable, customizable media gestalt. This is what used to be known...