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During the last few days, however, Chatterbox has been a little pressed for time amid the hurly-burly of domestic life (the refrigerator broke down, the Chattersitter smashed up the Taurus wagon), and he's been looking for shortcuts.
After an hour, I thought that Never Been Kissed might be the most fun teenpic since Clueless , but ultimately the movie takes too many shortcuts even on its own dumb, formulaic terms, and it can't make up its mind whether it wants to pander to teen-age fantasies of good looks and popularity or to scold teen-agers for being so shallow.
Brooks' best scenes operate on an X-ray level of honesty, so that shortcuts, formulas, easy ways out of dramatic jams--stuff that slicker filmmakers can get by with--seem in his work embarrassingly exposed.
Marketing-driven decisions and programming shortcuts are the road signs to Flabby Software City.
Colloquial Hebrew is excessively economical, and its shortcuts have been further abbreviated by the numerous acronyms used throughout the armed forces.