Word: shorthanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...content and gay characters--increasingly common accessories on shows aimed at trendy young adults--serve as a sort of coolness shorthand, bestowing hipness on their shows and audience, serving as a conduit to cred for the majority group, just as racial minorities have in the past. From Norman Mailer's White Negro we've gone to the Gay Hetero. As a side benefit, these characters allow networks to put affluent white boys on the air and call it diversity. (Indeed, the elderly animated pair Wally and Gus on the WB's Mission Hill are notable not so much for making...
...reconnect with its history. In the editorial tradition of signifying a country by its capital, "Bonn" referred to the democratic western half of Germany that achieved unprecedented prosperity in the postwar years. Now that the country has reclaimed its impoverished east, it needs a new signifier ? and what better shorthand for a reunited Germany than "Berlin...
...something to the effect, "You don't want to be here." Below that was the date, not spelled out April 20, as was the custom, but written 4/20 in bold type, a pulsing message easily decoded. "It's weed-smoking day," one student said, referring to the shorthand for going out and getting stoned: marijuana is supposed to contain 420 different chemicals: the Los Angeles police department's code for a drug bust...
...multisyllabic "Fif-teen Min-utes" didn't stick with Harvard students and soon, most everyone called the magazine by its initials, F.M. This started to confuse the matter. "FM" smacked of radio journalism, not print. And pronounced quickly, these initials sound like shorthand for Afro-American Studies (Af-Am), "effeminate"(effeme) or "fuck them...
...multisyllabic "Fif-teen Minutes" didn't stick with Harvard students and soon, most everyone called the magazine by its initials, F.M. This started to confuse the matter. "FM" smacked of radio journalism, not print. And pronounced quickly, these initials sound like shorthand for Afro-American Studies (Af-Am), "effeminate" (effeme) or "fuck them...