Word: conveyance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...play's conception, plainly wanted something beyond gay-rights advocacy. In successive productions they have focused ever more on the intellectual insights that made Turing unique without losing either his eccentricity or his humanity. The complex structure of flashbacks and flash forwards, monologues and dreamlike incidents is meant to convey something of the flavor and psychological sources of his genius. Much like Mozart in Amadeus, this sophisticated thinker seems suspended emotionally in adolescence. As Turing, Jacobi speaks beautifully, zealously, of his passion for science but stutters and splutters when meeting other people. All the energy of his psyche seems...
...Oscar Arias Sanchez, author of the peace plan and winner last month of the Nobel Peace Prize, and with Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra. Said Moody: "Getting in to see the top people makes a major difference in a reporter's ability to understand a complicated story and to convey that understanding to readers...
...help you on some of this," he said. "I think it's a nutty idea to fool around with the Social Security system." Moments later, Bush was holding his own in a finger-pointing exchange with Alexander Haig. Even when Haig blurted out the word wimp, Bush managed to convey that he was, in fact, in charge here...
...skilled political leader, able to inspire confidence and trusts, but also able to "shift allies and enemies from one issue to the next, to convey different messages to different audiences, to sense...public opinion and time his actions accordingly, and to hide his ultimate purpose behind his immediate rhetoric...
Agents of Innocence contains all the detailed local color and technical arcana that the thriller genre demands. Ignatius can convey the terror even an experienced spy feels when approaching isolated border crossings and potentially murderous guards. He can explain how to construct a remote-control detonator and how to gauge the damage of a terrorist blast by sight alone: "White smoke meant a very large explosion. A bomb that detonated so powerfully and quickly that it sucked the oxygen out of the air, leaving a white plume of smoke." The author also occasionally strains a little too hard to keep...