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Colloquial Hebrew is excessively economical, and its shortcuts have been further abbreviated by the numerous acronyms used throughout the armed forces.
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.
Third, it shortcuts the "summary judgment" and "censure" frames by organizing the trial's issues in temporal sequence rather than as a decision tree.
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.
The paper reports that construction shortcuts were common in older high-rises, including cases where building crews used vegetable oil cans instead of bricks.