Word: convey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sign language experts say that the four Pueblo crewmen are not accurately spelling the word Help, but may be trying to convey such a message from a vague knowledge of the sign alphabet. The first man on the left does indeed give the symbol for H; the second man does not spell E, but by placing a closed fist in his palm, signals the entire word Help, or Give me assistance. The third and fourth men give the wrong signs for L and P, though there are some similarities...
...vapid pick-up, a sick-sweet Bailey's sundae, and a frantically joyful party are not subtle devices; but they convey Waletzky's theme--aimlessness and Sunday-afternoon ennui--without themselves being aimless or boring. Sally is the aimless one. She has abandoned her commitment, and though that happens to be an East Cambridge rent project, it could as easily have been politics, creativity, or just another person...
Subliminal Message. Though the words were essentially the same in Humphrey's speech, the music was different. Humphrey managed to convey to many, however subliminally, his readiness to take greater risks to settle the war. House Republican leaders argued that Humphrey's position represented no departure. But Richard Nixon took the opposite tack. He implied that the Vice President was endangering the prospects for a settlement in Pans by breaking with the President, whose war policies Nixon generally supports, and by allowing Hanoi to think that it might get a better deal from Humphrey. Averell Harnman, the chief...
Flaming Boosters. What emotion did he seek to convey? That question he usually begged with a grin. In essence, Kline and his fellows were creating a new artistic language, through the push and pull of the images and the very strokes of the brush, to express emotions that could not be put into words. But, as Kline found himself becoming a success, the task became more difficult. He could now afford linen, instead of cotton, canvas and real artist's pigments, but these, he found, produced a slickness that belied his deliberate crudeness. His compositions became larger and more...
...prepare the show, Lee and his curator, Wai-Kam Ho, who was born and educated in China, have traveled from Berlin to Tokyo, assembled objects from ten different countries. Yet the impact of the exhibit lies less in the individual pieces than in the way they unite to convey the spirit of a century...