Word: convey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (20th Century-Fox), a British western shot in Spain, was apparently expected to convey the satiric notion that when Hollywood reaches for the six-shooter it usually produces something of a large bore. But somehow what comes across is the wistful and delightfully absurd idea that a good many apparently tame Englishmen secretly like to fancy themselves racketing around the Wild West like pure cussedness in cowpants, blasting the bepluribus out of silver dollars at 30 paces and generally keeping the beastly natives in their place...
...Novelist Coates has taken another stab at the job. What Coates had to start with was a typically Austenish setup: a poor widower with four unmarried daughters; sundry eligible young men ranging from a peer to a parson; a slew of poor relations, aunts, uncles. Coates tries manfully to convey at least half a dozen of them to the altar with Miss Austen's austere femininity...
...thorny forest surrounding the gaunt, weathered face, the serene and snowy hair rising through the turbulence of the stormy sky portray a picture of symbolic beauty. The smallness of the figure in the corner confronting the immense forest, and the craggy jutting power of Pasternak's face convey the esteem that both Artist Chapin and America feel for the unyielding integrity of this lone man who has profoundly shaken the complacency of East and West...
...President of the U.S. speaking," said a message taped at the White House and rebroadcast from Atlas. "Through the marvels of scientific advance my voice is coming to you from a satellite circling in outer space. My message is a simple one. Through this unique means I convey to you and to all mankind America's wish for peace on earth and good will toward men everywhere...
...than to explain a disintegrating writer. What destroyed any such writer must go beyond mere high-stepping idiocies to the full lure of wealth and high life that he succumbed to, and it must go beneath the killing froth of a marriage to its dark, neurotic lees. It must convey someone the more disenchanted for having first been so strangely romantic, and it might well suggest a gifted writer's self-delusion that memory would afterward recoup with words what had been squandered on wine and women. The twists and turns along Halliday's road down remain largely...