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A tongue-in-cheek glossary from U.K. editors, publishers, authors and agents
By Janice Harayda
The British have a gift for coded speech. Like Southerners who say "Bless your heart" when they mean the opposite, they salt their conversations with euphemisms that only the most credulous tourist would take at face value.
The U.K. publishing industry has its own subset of words and phrases that deflect embarrassing or inconvenient realities. A few appeared in my American-accented "40 Publishing Buzzwords, Clichés and Euphemisms Decoded" and "More Publishing Buzzwords," which gathered highlights from witty translations submitted at the Twitter hashtag #pubcode last year. Other examples of the British talent for indirection surfaced yesterday in a new wave of definitions at #publishingeuphemisms. Here are some of the best of those late arrivals (a list that excludes a few tweets that gave off an intentional or unintentional whiff of those posted in 2011), followed by the decoder's name.
"ahead of its time": "It bombed" Julie Bertagna, author of Exodus and other young-adult novels
"All our focus is on the paperback": "The hardback tanked" Jonny Geller, literary agent
"eminently marketable": "This author looks fit" Catherine Fox, author of Angels and Men, Scenes From Vicarage Life and other books
"an exciting new children's author": "edited to within an inch of its life so no parents can possibly be offended" Iain Paton, writer
"for fans of [insert bestselling author name]": "Normally eat smoked salmon? Try some tinned" Rhian Davies, judge for CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger.
"has worked as a gravedigger, ambulance driver, and llama-shearer": "had a gap year" Christopher Wakling, author of The Devil's Mask and other novels
"Here are all my corrections!": "(Except all the ones I'm going to email you everyday until sign off date.)" Cathy Hurren, production editor and MA student
"I'm hard at work": "I'm on Twitter" David Hebblethwaite, critic and blogger
"'I'm under such pressure for space": "It didn't deserve a review on my page" MaryB (@marysbookstuff on Twitter), "many hats."
"in their own words": "in the ghostwriter's words" Iain Paton, writer
"Just a couple of tiny changes needed": "I'm about to send you 27 pages of edits." Jill Mansell, author of A Walk in the Park and other novels
'"literary-commercial cross-over": "Has a plot but not too many adverbs" Nina Bell, author of Lovers and Liars and other novels
"The manuscript is nearly finished": "I'm up to chapter 3" Karen Wheeler, former fashion editor of a British newspaper and the author of Tout Sweet: Hanging Up My High Heels for a New Life in France and other books.
"The new Tom Clancy": "Jane's Military technical specifications with occasional action" Iain Paton, writer
"No woman has nipples like strawberries: "I don't get out much" Martin Pilcher (Igor Zap), writer
"The novel never quite reached the huge potential of its promise": "Your pitch letter was better than the book" Jonny Geller, literary agent
"Sorry but our list is currently closed": "We are too busy chasing celebrity deals to bother with hoi-polloi" Carole Matthews, author of Wrapped Up in You and other books
"There is such excitement in-house": "My assistant loved it" Jonny Geller
"This novel really challenges convention": "including spelling and basic grammar" Phoenix Yard Books, an independent children's publisher
"This doesn't fit in my current list": "The restraining order is in the post" Cath Bore, writer
"We're not sure a head shot will work on the jacket": "Look in a mirror" Christopher Wakling , novelist
"We've changed the pub date to give the book the best exposure": "We've f*cked up the schedule." Jane Judd, literary agent
"You seem to have fallen through the net": "We don't send cheques unless we're forced to." Rosy Cole, author of The Wolf and the Lamb
"Your novel isn't right for us at this time" = "or any time luv" Cath Bore
Janice Harayda has been the book columnist for Glamour, the book editor of the Plain Dealer, and a vice-president of the National Book Critics Circle. One-Minute Book Reviews is ranked one of the top 40 book blogs by Technorati and top 40 book-review blogs by Alexa Internet was named one of New Jersey's best blogs by New Jersey Monthly.
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I'll give you a scenario to illustrate how Bump can make the process of using pictures from your iPhone or Android phone a little easier (it's one I've run into personally on numerous occasions). Say you want to list an item on Craigslist: you snap a picture or two of the item using your iPhone, and you need to get the pictures to your computer so you can upload them to Craigslist.
You could connect your iPhone via USB, and use Image Capture or iPhoto syncing to get the images to your Mac. If you use Photo Stream on your iPhone, the photos will eventually sync to iPhoto and you can copy them from there. Because my sync cable is generally at the other end of the house on the nightstand, I usually e-mail the photos to myself.
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VATICAN CITY — On Monday, April 4, 2005, a priest walked up to the Renaissance palazzo housing the Vatican's doctrine department and asked the doorman to call the official in charge: It was the first day of business after Pope John Paul II had died, and the cleric wanted to get back to work.
The office's No. 2, Archbishop Angelo Amato, answered the phone and was stunned. This was no ordinary priest. It was Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, his boss, who under the Vatican's arcane rules had technically lost his job when John Paul died.
"It tells me of the great humility of the man, the great sense of duty, but also the great awareness that we are here to do a job," said Bishop Charles Scicluna, who worked with Ratzinger before he became Pope Benedict XVI, inside the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
In resigning, Scicluna said, Benedict is showing the same sense of humility, duty and service as he did after the Catholic Church lost its last pope.
"He has done his job."
When Benedict flies off into retirement by helicopter on Thursday, he will leave behind a church in crisis — one beset by sex scandal, internal divisions and dwindling numbers.
But the 85-year-old pope can count on a solid legacy: While his very resignation was his most significant act, Benedict — in a quieter way — also set the church back on a conservative, tradition-minded path.
He was guided by the firm conviction that many of the ills afflicting the church could be traced to a misreading of the reforms of the Second Vatican Council.
He insisted that the 1962-65 meetings that brought the church into the modern era were not a radical break from the past, as portrayed by many liberals, but rather a continuation of the best traditions of the 2,000-year-old church.
Benedict was the teacher pope, a theology professor who turned his Wednesday general audiences into master classes about the Catholic faith and the history, saints and sinners that contributed to it.
In his teachings, he sought to boil Christianity down to its essential core. He didn't produce volumes of encyclicals like his predecessor, just three: on charity, hope and love. (He penned a fourth, on faith, but retired before finishing it.)
Considered by many to be the greatest living theologian, he authored more than 65 books, stretching from the classic "Introduction to Christianity" in 1968 to the final installment of his triptych on "Jesus of Nazareth" last year — considered by some to be his most important contribution to the church. In between he produced the "Catechism of the Catholic Church" — essentially a how-to guide to being a Catholic.
Benedict spent the bulk of his early career in the classroom, as a student and then professor of dogma and fundamental theology at universities in Bonn, Muenster, Tuebingen and Regensburg, Germany.
"His classrooms were crowded," recalled the Rev. Joseph Fessio, a theology student of Ratzinger's at the University of Regensburg from 1972-74, and now the English-language publisher of his books.
"I don't recall him having notes," Fessio said. "He would stand at the front of the class, and he wasn't looking at you, not with eye contact, but he was looking over you, almost meditating."
It's a style that he's kept for 40 years.
"If you hear him give a sermon, he's speaking not from notes, but you can write it down and print it," Fessio said. "Every comma is there. Every pause."
Benedict never wanted to be pope and he didn't take easily to the rigors of the job. Elected April 19, 2005, after one of the shortest conclaves in history, Benedict was, at 78, the oldest pope elected in 275 years and the first German in nearly a millennium.
At first he was stiff.
Giovanni Maria Vian, editor of the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, recalled that in the early days Benedict used to greet crowds with an awkward victory gesture "as if he were an athlete."
"At some point someone told him that wasn't a very papal gesture," Vian said. Benedict changed course, opting for an open-armed embrace or an almost effeminate twinkling of his fingers on an outstretched hand as a way of connecting with the crowd.
"No one is born a pope," Vian said. "You have to learn to be a pope."
And slowly Benedict learned.
Crowds accustomed to a quarter-century of superstar John Paul II, grew to embrace the soft-spoken, scholarly Benedict, who had an uncanny knack for being able to absorb different points of view and pull them together in a coherent whole.
He traveled, though less extensively than John Paul, and presided over Masses that were heavy on Latin, Gregorian chant and the silk brocaded vestments of his pre-Vatican II predecessors.
Benedict seemed genuinely surprised by the warm reception he received — as well as the harsh criticism when things went wrong, as they did when he lifted the excommunication of a bishop who turned out to be a Holocaust-denier.
For a theologian who for decades had worked toward reconciliation between Catholics and Jews, the outrage was fierce and painful.
Benedict was also burdened by what he called the "filth" of the church: the sins and crimes of its priests.
As prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Benedict saw first-hand the scope of sex abuse as early as the 1980s, when he tried unsuccessfully to persuade the Vatican legal department to let him remove abusive priests quickly.
But it was 2001 before he finally stepped in, ordering all abuse cases sent to his office for review.
"We used to discuss the cases on Fridays; he used to call it the Friday penance," recalled Scicluna, who was Ratzinger's sex crimes prosecutor from 2002-2012.
Still, to this day, Benedict hasn't sanctioned a single bishop for covering up abuse.
"Unfortunately, Pope Benedict's legacy in the abuse crisis is one of mistaken emphases, missed opportunities, and gestures at the margin, rather than changes at the center," said Terrence McKiernan of BishopAccountability.org, an online resource of abuse documentation.
He praised Benedict for meeting with victims, and acknowledged the strides the Vatican made under his leadership. But, he said Benedict ignored the problem for too long, "prioritizing concerns about dissent over the massive evidence of abuse that was pouring into his office."
"He acted as no other pope has done when pressed or forced, but his papacy has been reactive on this central issue," McKiernan said in an email.
Benedict also gets poor grades from liberal Catholics, who felt abandoned by a pope who seemed to roll back the clock on the modernizing reforms of Vatican II and launched a crackdown on Vatican nuns, deemed to have strayed too far from his doctrinal orthodoxy.
Some priests are now living in open rebellion with church teaching, calling for a rethink on everything from homosexuality to women's ordination to priestly celibacy.
"As Roman Catholics worldwide prepare for the conclave, we are reminded that the current system remains an 'old boys club' and does not allow for women's voices to participate in the decision of the next leader of our church," said Erin Saiz Hanna, head of the Women's Ordination Conference, a group that ordains women in defiance of church teaching.
The group plans to raise pink smoke during the conclave "as a prayerful reminder of the voices of the church that go unheard."
But Benedict won't be around at the Vatican to see it. His work is done. "Mission Accomplished," Vian said.
And as the pope told 150,000 people in his final speech as pope: "To love the church is to have the courage to make difficult, painful choices, always keeping in mind the good of the church, not oneself."


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Though he's not instantly recognizable with his hair bleached blond-white in "The Fifth Estate" (which opens Friday), it's clear that's Benedict Cumberbatch playing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from the moment he speaks a line of dialogue. The rich, deep, melodious baritone voice gives him away. Moviegoers have been hearing it a lot in recent years: in "Atonement," "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" and "Star Trek into Darkness," and TV viewers have been enjoying his modern take on a certain deductive detective in the British series "Sherlock." But Cumberbatch, 37, started on the stage, getting great notices for roles in "A Midsummer Night's Dream," "Hedda Gabler" and, just last year, a production of "Frankenstein" in which he regularly switched between playing Victor Frankenstein and the creature. Cumberbatch recently spoke about his career and taking on the part of Assange at the Toronto International Film Festival.
It's been reported that you tried to meet with Julian Assange before starting, but he didn't want anything to do with the film and refused. How did you approach the part?
I didn't want to impersonate him, I wanted to interpret him. There's an acreage of footage online. A lot of it is formal, of him in presentational mode, of him arguing or being interviewed or talking about particular issues to do with WikiLeaks. But the film investigates the man in the more private mode of friendship and the working relationship with [his WikiLeaks associate] Daniel Berg, as well as stories of him off camera and very much out of the public eye. I guess that was the harder part.
The film portrays him as being passionate about his work but doesn't show him in a very flattering light. Any guesses on what he'll think of the film and your portrayal?
I really don't want to venture what his reaction's going to be. I'm not a betting man, but I imagine he won't particularly want to support the film. But I'm not a mind reader, even though I tried to get into his mind to a certain degree for a certain period of his life. I think that we show a man and his idea, and the integrity and sacrifice that he had to pursue to see that through. I think we show the achievement of WikiLeaks between 2007 and 2010 – electoral reform in Nigeria, the exposure of corruption in the banking systems of Iceland and parts of Western Europe, Tibetan suppression by the Chinese. And then the massive dump of [American military] information in 2010. I think there's a lot to celebrate about his achievements, and the perspective it shows on what he managed to do and how he managed to do it.
Assange is still holed up in the Ecuadoran Embassy in London. How do you think the situation will be resolved?
I don't know. I'm not a legal expert; I'm an actor. I wouldn't like to venture what might or should happen. It's very complicated, and it has to do with dealings and goings-on behind closed doors. I don't have access to any kind of information or perspective that would shine a light on some sort of certain truth about that. What I'd like to see is the man able to carry on doing his work as the founder of WikiLeaks. Beyond that, due process has to take place in whatever way, shape or form that happens.
Are you as good with computers as Assange appears to be in the film?
Actually, I'm very computer illiterate. I interface with easy, user-friendly kinds of software on sleek-looking hardware without really understanding what the workings of computers are. So it was fascinating to explore that aspect of Julian and learn about his pioneering work in computer programming and hacking. It was an education but not one I took to naturally.
Could you speak about making the transition from theater to screen acting?
I genuinely believe that they feed off each other. You can take theatrical moments into cinematic moments, and vice versa. I don't know if having a theater background changed my approach to film acting in any particular way, but I was really lucky to begin in theater. You have the wonderful, amazing discovery period of a rehearsal time, which is a luxury in the film world. But most directors on most [film] projects, including this one, do try to carve that out, so you can experience a preparation and a level of experimentation and failing and getting up again and failing, before you're in front of a camera.
What draws you to a role?
As much as it's your choice as an actor, variety is a prerogative. That's kind of my guiding principle when I do get the opportunity to choose – to keep myself guessing, to challenge myself to do things I haven't done before, and hopefully an audience hasn't seen before. I've been very lucky.
Ed Symkus covers movies for More Content Now.


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