Word: shorthanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most formidable enemy of all sometimes." (Is this the same Bob Kerrey who not long ago proposed a federal takeover of health insurance?) And here's Kent Conrad, Democrat of North Dakota, bragging that he was "leader in the fight that stopped the BTU tax." That's shorthand for the energy tax. Readers will recall that the leader in the effort to advance it was Bill Clinton...
...Bill Clinton, "Mariel" is shorthand for all that must be avoided this time around: another 125,000 new Florida residents courtesy of Fidel Castro. Rodriguez's associations are more personal. He was eight when soldiers came to his family's door in the town of El Gabriel and told them to clear out. An aunt in Hialeah, accepting Fidel's open invitation, had sent a boat for her relatives. Rodriguez remembers his father, a photographer, ceding their home and possessions to the state. The family then spent a tense, hungry week at a quickly erected processing center. On board Nature...
Natural Born Killers -- in shorthand, NBK, to echo Stone's nutsy-greatsy JFK -- traces the odyssey of love-thugs Mickey and Mallory Knox (Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis) as they terrorize the Southwest and mesmerize America's couch spuds. Like Bonnie & Clyde, Badlands and a zillion tortured teen movies of the '50s, NBK creates two doomed maniacs busy mythologizing themselves. "We got the road to hell in front of us," Mickey tells his bride, and he's not lying. These kids get their kicks on Route 666; when they go traveling, the devil thumbs a ride...
...Washington. Into this maelstrom rush pompous politicians who in Stamaty's world are invariably filled with sound and fury that only add to the confusion. The business of government, Stamaty says, "is so massive and complex that our public dialogue often gets boiled down to an absurd and insufficient shorthand." That being the case, we invite you to laugh -- and to groan -- along with...
Recognizing the truth about Radcliffe would mean admitting that Radcliffe 's presence to undergraduates is already largely symbolic-that Radcliffe already serves as shorthand for "female Harvard students." If RUS disappeared, people would quickly from a Women's Students Association of comparable size and constituency. And Harvard students would find a way to take back the night, Radcliffe...