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...welcome return, says TIME's Paul Gray. What starts as a simple murder-mystery puzzle in the Andes mountains rapidly becomes an attempt to track down, through the labyrinth of fiction, experiences that defy rational explanation. "There is a spookiness about this novel, one that is hard to convey," says Gray. "But Vargas Llosa's meticulously realistic descriptions of this high, unforgiving landscape and the haunted people who perch there for the span of their lives ultimately merge into a surreal portrait of a place both specific and universal."Movies: The White BalloonJafar Panahi's sweet little tale...
...hope you agree with and support our many ongoing efforts, several of which I've mentioned. But what I most want to convey is that to accomplish the second goal of this Council--relevance--we need you. It is my belief, and that of many on the Council, that informing you of our efforts is not enough. I'd much prefer an expansion of real dialogue between you and your student government...
Wilson says the senior administration has attempted to convey the details of the restructuring to students by giving access to The Crimson and communicating directly with student leaders...
...addition to the question of the substance of what editorialists write, there is also the question of how we convey our ideas. Tone is certainly a very important consideration in opinion writing. There are times when editorialists cross the line of good taste in their writing, when they are unnecessarily offensive and when they sacrifice clarity of meaning for inflammatory value. Looking back on some of my own editorials, I can find instances of such inappropriate tone...
...with frames of paint inside, as well) that squeeze speckled, color-saturated vistas into distant postcards. The window effect isn't just a mannerism. It speaks of a certain anxiety, the desire to guard memory in the act of revealing it: "The more evanescent the emotion I want to convey," Hodgkin once remarked, "the thicker the panel, the heavier the framing, the more elaborate the border, so that this delicate thing will remain protected and intact...