Word: conveyer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their introduction to the first issue, the editors say: "Our pictures and our stories will have to convey the continuing sense that this new LIFE, like the old one, is deeply involved with the world it covers, that its capacity for wonder, conviction and caring is as big as ever . . . This is a different magazine, but there is still just one answer for us: 'picture magic' again...
...really like that." Governors, said Ray, would prefer to receive revenue-sharing funds that they may use as they see fit, to reduce taxes if necessary. But both Congress and the Carter Administration are reluctant to surrender any federal controls. Concluded Ray: "I suppose if we Governors could convey just one message to our federal brother it would be: 'Please, whatever you do, don't impose new congressional or Executive mandates on us without reimbursement for their costs...
...clients envied. In his 37-room, antique-filled mansion on Manhattan's Gramercy Park, he held lavish soirées at which he flourished as raconteur and keeper of secrets, wheeler-dealer and patron of intellectuals. Sonnenberg once proclaimed: "I want my house and office to convey an impression of stability and to give myself a dimension, background and tradition that go back to the Nile...
Descriptions of food, music, sex and the funny remark made around the office water cooler have one thing in common: you really had to be there. Trillin manages to convey his appreciation for what he eats without straining after poetic equivalents of the taste. After a generous helping of crabes farcis, he simply notes that "chefs on Martinique tend to use as stuffing what I suspect a crab would have chosen to stuff himself with if only he had been given the opportunity." He has high praise for the cooking of a Manhattan neighbor and adds: "Alice claims that when...
Piranesi hence resolved to convey his ideas in pictures. He published a volume of twelve visionary buildings that dramatized his spaces by the diagonal perspectives of stage design. But his work created no stir, and he was forced to return to Venice, where the presiding geniuses at the time were Tiepolo, Canaletto and Guardi. The influence of Tiepolo freed Piranesi's line from cramped meticulousness favored by architectural engravers of the day. The result can be clearly seen in the Morgan show, where sketches for decorative panels and figure studies echo Tiepolo's and Guardi's free...