Word: convey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Redding in California's deep, fertile Sacramento Valley. He put his profits into real estate outside of town. When construction began in 1938 on the $36,000,000 Shasta Dam, devised to stabilize Sacramento Valley's water supply, engineers built a ten-mile belt line to convey 10,000,000 cubic yards of gravel to the world's No. 2 dam. For their gravel pit they chose Christ Kutras' tract of land...
Producer David O. Selznick has seen to it that Rebecca follows Daphne du Maurier's novel as faithfully as Gone With the Wind followed Margaret Mitchell's. So Director Hitchcock faced the usual problem of filming a wordy book -how to convey long-winded off-stage narrative background without slowing up the fast-moving camera. Out of this handicap Director Hitchcock makes his most exciting scenes. Touching are Joan Fontaine's half-apologetic, half-reluctant reminiscences about her artist father...
...Record Shop. As a matter of fact, Commodore ran and ad in which it said that this was the "greatest album in the history of jazz" and surpassed by far anything it or anyone else had been able to do. I can't find superlatives super-stuff enough to convey how good this album seems to me and everyone else that has heard it. It's an album for everyone, not just jazz fans, for it is truly great music and marks an epoch in the art of recreating living music on cold record surfaces. Next week, this column will...
...idea or intention in the mind of the artist? I think not. But for the purpose of discussion, we must divorce the content from the painting itself. Now it is difficult, almost impossible, for a literal artist, one who does not paint in what we consider abstract terms, to convey a feeling or idea about an impersonal universal in a successful manner. For example, even so great an artist as El Greco could not, if he worked within his own limits, express the idea, "geometry is beautiful," without detracting from the central idea by using in his work people...
...wonderfully a platitude can be used to convey a faintly sinister significance in England...