Word: convey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Loden manages at times to make the heart ache for Wanda's rootlessness and empty-headed plight. As a director, she captures the ambience of small-time roadhouses with compelling accuracy; she manages through some clever location photography (done in and around the Pennsylvania coal-mining country) to convey an almost overwhelming sense of lingering desperation. Her debut as a director, despite its flaws, is both welcome and promising. · Jay Cocks
...Clov. In general his Clov expresses only a whining weariness with everything about his life. However (and here again is the difficulty with acting Beckett) whining weariness can grate on an audience unless it manages to be expressive of meaning beyond sheer weariness. Gammon is not quite able to convey this, and as a result his characterization occasionally becomes tiresome...
...Radicals have accomplished the impossible: they have successfully separated the concept of violence from the idea of hurting people. I'm sure if Bonnie and Clyde were alive today, they'd have a poster of Che on their wall. Death and blood are no longer words that convey human suffering; they are potent political battle cries. Had I kept going, I am sure I would have killed somebody...
...title for a 1950 oil was The Written Sea-with an immediacy of gesture that irresistibly reminds one of Pollock. Many of his notes read like a manifesto of the New York School: he was preoccupied with the integrity of the picture plane ("By George I am not to convey the feel that it's bent out of its own individual flatness") and rejected illusionism ("Give paint a chance to show itself entirely as paint...
...does being a Harvard man convey to the unwelcoming possessor of that title an active sort of responsibility which demands of him that he live up to that identity? Being from Harvard, you know that what is worshipped is the ideal, the abstraction, and not the living diurnal embodiment of Harvard. Yet when you turn outside the University, you see yourself again and again being personally identified with it. Ultimately, you realize that you have been entrapped willy-nilly by that identity which others have projected from themselves upon you. The only solution you can properly resign yourself to under...