Word: shorthanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...which are nothing more than masturbatory lists of famous names--"Brooke Shields; John Stamos, Stephanie Seymour, Jenny Shimuzu [sic]". And so many brand names make an appearance, from Alaia to Prada to Yohji Yamamoto, you'd think he had a product placement contract. It seems to be Ellis' convenient shorthand for character sketches. When Victor undergoes a transformation to a law student, we know he is different because he now wears a Brooks Brothers suit and drinks Diet Coke. London and Paris become nothing more than a different collection of recognizable proper nouns (Notting Hill and Irvine Welsh...
...this property [in the Quad], and weallow Harvard and Radcliffe students to livehere," Wilson said. "It's really aHarvard-Radcliffe House system. In this community,people use shorthand a lot. It tends to beshortened to the House system or the Harvard Housesystem...
Looking at the shorthand of the box score, one wonders how Harvard managed to spoil Homecoming Saturday...
Starr has her testimony, the tapes and something else, the kind of gift only a faithful government secretary like Linda Tripp could give: a stenographer's notebook filled with 80 to 100 pages of tight shorthand that chronicles the times, dates, places and circumstances of Lewinsky's alleged liaison with the President, a sort of Guide Bleu to the whole story. According to sources outside Starr's office, at this time a year ago, when Lewinsky was distraught over Clinton's decision to break things off, she talked to her friend Tripp for hours about what had happened...
...private pain of the Dahmer (pronounced DAY-mer) family was also a national tragedy. Vernon, a prosperous businessman, headed the Hattiesburg branch of the N.A.A.C.P., so the Klan targeted him with a "No. 3" and a "No. 4": shorthand for arson and murder. At his funeral, thousands of admirers poured into Shady Grove Baptist Church. President Johnson sent Ellie Dahmer a telegram mourning her husband and calling for a federal investigation...