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Still, to be waylaid on the stairs, to have to listen to all her jargon, hear her demands, threats and complaints, and have to make excuses and subterfuges in return -- no, he preferred to steal down without attracting notice"). In other words, most of the story happens under the hero's hat.
Anti-canine prejudice prevents her attending the best MFA programs, though if she wrote a thesis I'm sure her jargon would be just as understandable as that published in most universities.
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and her Latinate jargon, now scientific ("encryption"), now political ("subversion").
But while some women quoted here can be articulate or funny about their hair experiences, their remarks are all too often used to illustrate the author's trite theories or are drowned out by her fuzzy, jargon-filled speechifying, her eagerness to inject sociological drama into every incident and story.
Perhaps the most widely voiced criticism concerned her dense, jargon-laden prose and her nonlinear style of argument, both of which were viewed by some readers as rhetorical devices serving to conceal a paucity of original ideas.
Yet in all the hardball of her lipograms, jargons, and typographical play – often likened, much to her discomfort, to the work of her British compatriots Ann Quin and BS Johnson, as well as French counterparts George Perec and Philippe Sollers – her prose is also intensely funny.
An 11-year-old girl is sent to a psychiatrist who speaks to her in odd jargon ("the little erky-terk") and sounds dangerously like someone out of a fairy tale.
Hearing her spout seminar jargon ("I'm very interested in the social topography of space") in comedy rooms is jarring and she unpacks phrases and words with an eerie precision.
To refer to Joan Didion as "a pretty cool customer" was a shocking and cynical interpretation of her demeanor, in jargon more suited to an episode of "Law and Order" than to a hospital waiting room.
Her specialty of "spaciality," which I came to understand was the study of how the allotment of physical space is used by the powers that be to keep others in a subordinate condition, seemed a plausible undertaking, but Ms. Tickamyer's paper was so clogged with her craft's jargon ("access to gender space"; "maxi- and micro-analysis;" "complex multirational") that it left little breathing space.
Interviews have given over countless column inches to her trademark AA jargon.
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