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Since Michelangelo intended his work to invoke pity in the mind of the beholder, let his damaged Pieta convey in its brokenness an added dimension of pity...
...muscular coordination necessary for controlled movement and speech, and is virtually restricted to a wheelchair. Like many other victims of the disease, she will never be able to move around normally or speak well enough to be understood. Now an experimental training program that uses printed symbols to convey meaning has begun to draw her out of her isolated world...
Diplomatic Illness. It was possible that Castro, who is a bit paunchy at 45, was "simply tired," as Polish government spokesmen insisted. But then there was the theory, endorsed by some European newspapers, that Castro was suffering a diplomatic illness meant to convey his unhappiness at a possible attempt by Polish officials to arrange a meeting between him and Richard Nixon, who had passed through Warsaw a few days earlier...
...eight other defendants look at each other and smile, smiles that convey much of what is wrong with this film of The Trial of the Catonsville Nine. They are smug smiles, full of condescension and unchecked theatrical egotism. The movie is extracted virtually as a piece from Father Berrigan's play, which was in turn a dramatization of his 1968 trial for burning draft records. There Berrigan, his brother Philip and seven other defendants tried to reverse the guilt and put the whole Viet Nam War on trial. But the characters in the film seem to be acting less...
...Rorschach, people reveal their emotional conflicts by describing what they think they see in indeterminate shapes. Similarly, critics of the Pioneer 10 drawing saw considerably more than Drake and Sagan intended to convey, thus suggesting something about their own inner preoccupations...