Word: convey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time when the cute, effervescent sparkle of a Debbie Reynolds type has replaced more mature beauty, Ingrid Bergman makes you see how very few striking actresses are left. The camera looks closely at her for long, half-minute stretches; her voice and her face convey great emotion; there may be no other actress who can fill brief scenes with quite so much feeling...
...gets along well with the group." He would like to see the return of solid rules of behavior which all kids, understood and appreciated. Instead, he finds children, his own included, Geselled and Spocked and Ilged to the point where "nothing but a jail term is going to convey disapproval." He even holds that what he learned about women from the Police Gazette was educational. And what is left of the child's fine art of doing nothing? "Many many hours of my childhood were spent in learning how to whistle . . . how to snap my fingers. In hanging from...
...boyishly risque Deck the Halls: "Nothing could be gayer, than to one-horse-open-sleigh her." Hound (dog) has as much rock, and more down-to-earthiness than Mr. Presley's. Soloist Bill Gurton captures the true flavor of America's adolescent subculture, though the record does not convey his physical talents...
James Mason is a suitably stiff yet dashing Field Marshal. Supported by fetching Jessica Tandy as his wife and Cedric Hardwicke, looking like the archtype of the educated German man-of-action, he manages to convey his problem effectively. His irritation with his master and his hesitation to act upon it seem more real than his exaggerated decisiveness with maps and binoculars. Yet if Rommel seems almost too fine a soldier, Hollywood can be forgiven this concession to folk lore in gratitude for portraying the man as well...
...different places in the score. The notations can also indicate such basic things as 1) when the dancer should dance or stand still, 2) whether the dancer should move quickly or slowly, 3) what relation the dancer's next movements should bear to the movements just completed. To convey these directions, Laderman relies on musical notes together with music's diacritical markings: staccatos, rests, accents, crescendos, diminuendos. Thus, a rest after a note may mean that phrase should be broken off abruptly, and a heavy dot may mean that a jump should be bouncy. A diminuendo indicates...