Word: shorthanded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bancroft, playing a South American aristocrat, sounds more like South Brooklyn and about as aristocratic as a hash-house waitress. Alexander ably sketches differences among the dowager's airhead sister, mean daughter and timid nurse, but, as the last, lapses into a singsong that has become her trademark shorthand for innocence. Adding to the problem, Robert Allan Ackerman's archly formal staging emphasizes ritual over a sense of place. Still, the two women establish an ever shifting power dynamic. In the last fantasy, when they embrace fondly in an imagined courtyard, their warmth and urgency enable the audience to share...
...brief says, "The club itself admits that it is not organized for any advocacy pupose," so the members' rights will not be infringed upon by the admittance of women. "The anti-discrimination statutes merely prevent the club from using sex as a shorthand measure for selecting members in place of more legitimate criteria for determining membership," it states...
...recent court order, some of the creek's water pours over a narrow spillway and meanders seven miles down its ancient route to Mono Lake. "There's probably 5 c.f.s. flowing in there," a water activist remarks in the technical shorthand (c.f.s. meaning cubic feet per second) that characterizes California water talk...
...intimida because I would be interviewing people over the phone, and I don't know shorthand," Joslin says. "So I'd want to talk to them, but I didn't want to ask them to slow down, so I couldn't really keep up with them...
...more probable is a bartered nomination. That shorthand phrase describes an open and public preconvention bargaining process in which the surviving candidates feverishly try to assemble a majority by negotiating with blocs of unpledged or loosely committed delegates. It is politics on the model of a Middle Eastern suq, where almost anything is possible if the price is right...