Word: shorthanders
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...Tanner's films are only part of the disturbing trend in film to rely on visual and emotional shorthand, on elliptical reference, on stock symbolism, and on inadequate artistic explication in dealing with human problems. I am tired of being manipulated without compensations. Modern life is too complex to be treated with Tanner's irresponsibility--or without the artistic and moral understanding of Bergman...
...really after is money." His bench mate, Robert Sandberg, 19, a dropout from the City University of New York, agrees: "As a technician, you can still get rich." Katharine Gibbs, which graduates 2,000 secretaries a year from five East Coast sites, requires relentless drill in typing, shorthand and other office skills ("It's the most brutal school in the world," says one recent graduate), but it places almost all of its graduates in jobs...
...time that messes up both J.W. and the movie. Robertson trots out the usual herd of metaphors for contemporary alienation. When J.W. facetiously gives his address as " 1313 Luck Road," it comes out sounding smug and pompous because the rest of the film deals too literally in such symbolic shorthand, as in the goring episode...
...secretaries -nearly all women, many underutilized and underpaid-would seem to be ideal recruits for Women's Liberation. Yet few so far have joined the cause. Nevertheless, with new pages being turned almost everywhere else, some are being flipped over in shorthand notebooks...
...P.L.K.-an irreverent shorthand for "Plucky Little King" used by Western diplomats in Amman-is not bending under the boycott. "I think we are soldiering on quite happily," he told Scott. "The intention was to create discontent but it is having the opposite effect. Our people are more united than they have ever been. We will accept no form of interference in our internal affairs from any quarter." Indeed, the boycott is showing some cracks. Iraq once again permits Alia overflights and recently backed down and allowed Jordan Valley tomatoes into Baghdad, because the price of local products had gone...