Word: conveyance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ability, in an artificial environment, to project naturalness. It is a quality Cronkite shares not so much with other anchormen, but with Ronald Reagan. Both are sons of the Middle West who, in other surroundings and in more expensive suits, are determined to remain so. Both manage to convey the impression that "what you see is what you get." What you don't see may not be contrary to what you do see, but it is different. In both Reagan and Cronkite, there is obviously more than easygoing amiability...
...lovely thing about marriage is that life ambles on-as if life were some mean dering path lined with sturdy plane trees. A love affair is like a shot arrow. It gives life an intense direction, if only for an in stant." Colwin's witty, graceful stories convey both leisurely walks and sudden, unexpected sprints...
...stay, much to his chagrin. In this piece, as throughout, the two use only one or two props, and remain clad in streetclothes. They pick a theme begun some time earlier in a musical that the audience, of course, doesn't see. But even without a developed plot they convey with perfect clarity the confrontation of two strangers who wake up together uncertain of each other's motives. Kean and Bundy work best together, always creating a dramatic situation rather than simply singing a duet...
BECAUSE WOLF relies so heavily on a patchwork style to convey the sketchiness of memory, trivial events are interspersed with important ones, and connected by observations both in the present, and in the context of the 1971 trip. Although for the most part, Wolf's style succeeds in evoking a feeling for the vicissitudes of memory, the lack of focus is often frustrating, and ultimately detracts from the book's power. Unlike other autobiographies, the author claims no inherent literary value in the author's childhood per se, thus the insignificance of many of the memories becomes cloying. The attempt...
Many pictures in After Daguerre, however, convey a sense of joy in the world, a delight in vision as if it were some magic new gift, which painting had lost and would not acquire again until the triumph of impressionism. In a picture labeled simply The Hound "Balliveau," no pains have been taken with composition. The subject is tied to a barn wall. To see the picture, though, is to brood on the look of this ungainly dog as if a new species had just been invented. And in the best landscapes by Gustave Le Gray, one can almost...