Word: conveyance
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...According to Argentine campaigner Ariel Bellino, a former Catholic: "The church counts all those who've been baptized as Catholic and lobbies for legislation based on that number, so we're trying to convey the importance of people expressing they no longer belong to the church." Campaigners say that's particularly important in Argentina, where liberal social values frequently clash with Roman Catholic doctrine related to issues such as birth control, abstinence before marriage and homosexuality; in 2003, Buenos Aries became the first city in South America to legalize gay civil unions...
...play Petey and Meg, respectively, play off of each other well as an unhappily married couple. Though he is not present often, Commins is the first and last character to appear on stage, and his lethargic facial expressions, slouchy posture, and perpetual consternation effectively convey Petey’s anxious character. Meanwhile, Bryggman fidgets around restlessly, capturing completely Meg’s naïveté and eagerness to please. The highlight of Bryggman’s performance is portraying Meg drunk during the birthday party, at which point her inebriated silliness evokes peals of laughter from the audience.Also outstanding...
...finally crashes through Prior’s bedroom ceiling in the form of an angel, played by Isabel Q. Carey ’12. Carey—who also plays the Mormon Mother and Prior’s Nurse—knows precisely how to hold her head to convey a sense of otherworldly detachment and disdain for the world necessary to her part. She also gracefully pulls off swinging precariously through the air and dangling in space on pulleys with considerable aplomb. With an artistry of appearance, Carey’s angel invites a series of questions: is Prior...
...Birthday Party’] is not a play with a message, and it’s not about abstract ideas,” Stone writes. “If you stage it right, there’s no need to try to convey something—the ambiguities in the play lead the audience to infer their own meaning, which, to me, is a much more powerful and engaging experience. This is a play that speaks for itself, so I haven’t tried to embellish, impose, or overdo anything. That would just kill it.” Lacking...
...given its chilly atmospherics and unsettling percussion. The simple lyrics (no line is longer than three words) rely mostly on word association—“Fall asleep / Spin the sky / Skeleton me / Love don’t cry”—yet still manage to convey a vulnerable beauty.Given their previous work, it is not at all surprising that many of the lyrics on “It’s Blitz!” describe love and sex. At times, O delivers lines of barely disguised innuendo, such as “The beast that...