Word: shorthands
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...plainly dressed Chinese on Shanghai's Bund gazing across the river at the buildings in Pudong. We can't see the people's faces, but their posture suggests they have been standing there a long time, contemplating the sight of Shanghai's biggest tourist attraction, a shiny visual shorthand for national ambitions: height, wealth, modernity, progress. Yet in Delano's picture, the towers appear faint and far away. They don't scrape the sky so much as leach into it. Maybe they're about to come into focus, maybe they'll fade out completely. We can't tell which...
...last major Palestinian city under complete Israeli occupation, a status that was originally supposed to end last March, if only the two sides could agree on the terms for self-rule. Last week, just when it looked as if they might, the name Hebron reclaimed its place as shorthand for bloodlust and mayhem...
It’s an ambitious ideology, considering the scope of the titular Silk Road. The term is shorthand for an intricate system of trade routes that stretched from Japan to the Mediterranean, with stops throughout Central Asia and the Middle East, from roughly 1600 B.C.E. until 8th century...
...would if I needed a quick shorthand and I didn?t have time to explain the nuances. Personally, I would describe what I do as romantic comedies and light comic contemporary fiction...
...edge of Southern music: a danceable, rapid-fire, bass-heavy rap (frequently blended with R&B) called crunk, fine-tuned and marketed by loud, gold-toothed former DJ Lil Jon and popularized partly through his massive and spectacularly vulgar hit Get Low. His music--along with the crunk (Southern shorthand for "cranked up," as in increased volume; it also alludes to getting crazy drunk) label--has made its way through every city block to the hip-hop mainstream...