Word: conveyer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will be her husband's Pan American Day speech in Washington in April, which emphasized human rights, economic problems and arms control as matters of top priority in Latin American diplomacy. According to Robert Pastor, the National Security Council's expert on Latin American affairs, Rosalynn should not only "convey to the Latin American governments a sense of what this Administration is all about" but also provide "a better sense of where these 'new directions' are likely to take...
...Desiree look very good by comparison. Templin, who plays an actress who is always on and the director of the matrimonial musical chairs, has life, presence and a wardrobe of elegant costumes. She can also sing--not as stunningly, perhaps, as one might wish, but well enough to convey the poignant irony of the show's finest song, "Send in the Clowns." In her case, a stronger directorial hand would surely have added luster to an already adequate performance...
...seeks Carter's assurance that the U.S. will maintain a strong military presence in the western Pacific. "Almost all Asian leaders," Fukuda told TIME Tokyo Bureau Chief William Stewart, "will be disturbed if the U.S. disrupts the basic tenor of its Asian policy. They have asked me to convey their concern." Fukuda is especially chary of "any disruption of the delicate balance offerees on the Korean peninsula. I plan to advise President Carter very strongly about this...
Somehow James Coco redeems a role that skirts the emotional breaking point and tests the border of the intolerable. Like an obscene Buddha of bloat, he is seated and immobile at center stage. He can use only his face, his voice and his hands to convey scalding inner pain, the shame of incessant humiliation, a wry humor that disguises itself as self-mocking wrath and a shyly proffered love that he knows will be drowned like an unwanted kitten. Directed with unswerving authority by Robert Drivas, James Coco has reached the pinnacle of his career as a poignant martyr...
McCarthy also offered some observations about his Democratic opponent's literary preferences. "Carter's not much for poetry...(or) metaphor," McCarthy said, adding that the president's speeches rely heavily on adverbs and adjectives, two parts of speech which, in McCarthy's opinion, fail to convey philosophical meaning...