Word: conveyance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University, conducted in Sanders Theatre, consisted of 15-minute lectures intended to convey the flavor of medieval academic life. Typical lectures explained the process of canonization (the making of a saint) or exposed the "heresies" of Galileo...
BECAUSE NO CHARACTER in the film can verbalize his thoughts or emotions, the cast relies extensively on token gestures and allusions to convey its message. Sometimes, in the case of the blasting air-raid siren, the allusions are subtle: other times, as in the case of the returning paraplegic soldier from war, the statements are more blunt. In virtually every instance, however, the director weaves this type of commentary skillfully and creatively into the central dance scenes, enabling the film to maintain an artistic symmetry. Even the scenes fraught with tension--potentially sore appendages to an otherwised highly synchronized...
Like the recent Eddie and the Cruisers, Hard To Hold tries to convey the difficulties of the road life but only through casual rhetoric. The plot becomes more like a pick up line at each turn--you know, we really have a lot in common, she tells Springfield about her longshoreman father. "My father's an orthodontist," he says. "Hooray for the working class...
...Mondale turned to Hart and cracked, "When I hear your new ideas, I'm reminded of that ad 'Where's the beef?' " That skewering sentence became perhaps the most excerpted "sound bite" from the 60-minute debate and served as effectively as any commercial to convey Mondale's message that Hart lacks substance...
Jackson, who played the peacemaker in the New York debate and was judged by some commentators to have "won," may have achieved his victory the moment he sat down: just by appearing on an equal basis with Hart and Mondale, he was able to convey to his chief constituency, black voters, that casting a ballot for him was not an irrelevant act. Mondale and Hart, who squabbled almost nonstop in New York-not least about each other's accusatory TV ads-apparently took their cue from Jackson's success. In last Thursday's debate in Pittsburgh, there...