Word: convey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dramatic reminder of how vital a contribution Dada and surrealism made to the modernist imagination. No painting or poetry had been so resolutely and bitterly antiauthoritarian. Dada was the child of trauma; the first World War, that cultural chasm, had revealed - in the sheer incapacity of words to convey its degree of lethal absurdity - the extent to which language itself was owned by the officer classes of Europe...
...camera is more at home in the salon and ballroom scenes, which perfectly convey the elegant Frenchified world of the pre-Revolutionary aristocracy, where everything is al lowed so long as it is hidden. Nearly everyone is having an affair like Anna's and Vronsky's, and adultery seems to be the thing the rich do best...
...none of that emerges from "Ward 81." Mark does not skimp on desperation. There are grotesqueries, like the image of a male patient beginning a hand stand - a knot of barely decipherable limbs, a weird sculpture on the glittering linoleum. But the general character of the photographs is to convey sympathy with these trapped lives. Nowhere is it manifested more poignantly than in her pictures of women relaxing in the hospital bath. Such subjects, in other hands, might have piled voyeurism on intrusion. But in "Ward 81" they acquire a sort of elegiac sweetness, as images of bathers tend...
Thus, although they add few facts to what is already known about the period, the diaries, covering Feb. 27 through April 9, convey a sharp sense of immediacy and give West Germans an intimate glimpse of how one of the brutal regime's leaders viewed the Nazi Götterdämmerung...
...children. Yes, it does portray the lasting, supportive friendship between the two in a way that few films have examined women's relationships before, since movies have largely been a man's medium and most male directors don't have that experience to draw on. And yes, it does convey a valuable message in demonstrating how women can learn to live without men, if that's what their full development as women and individuals requires. Particularly moving is the story of the young mother, Marie. After her artist lover commits suicide because he cannot provide for the family, she sacrifices...