Word: conveyer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...terms "radical" and "moderate," the press has devised surrogates that hone in on the concept of the dialectic of Chinese politics; when you're in this supposedly more authentic frame of mind, you talk about idealists and pragmatists, respectively. Even this pair of labels, which look to convey the unfriendly notions of revolutionary fervor and steady common sense, derive significance from the writer's cultural attitudes and experiences. Here the terms are being applied to a complex, fairly inaccessible society by Americans, and Thomas B. Gold, a fourth-year graduate student in Sociology, points out that the transfer...
Aldo would have had a terrible time capturing the mouth, I am sure. Within an arc of less than, say, 30 degrees, that mouth can convey every important feeling in the politician's guidebook. At the top of the arc, there is a smile that fairly breathes a grandfatherly benevolence. A shade below that, there's an omni-purpose politician's grin. At the middle of the arc, Al's smile turns into a squarely set, unrehearsed-looking deadpan, suitable for framing and hanging in a standup comics' Hall of Fame. And at the bottom of the arc, there...
...POINT OF documentary cinema at its best is to convey things as they really are, events as they really occurred, in all their beauty, in all their terror, in all their pathos. In this sense, Idi Amin Dada is documentary at its worst, a combination of cheap shots, superficial political commentary, and cultural racism, which results in a meaningless comic portrait of a genocidal dictator. A Swiss director, Barbet Schroeder, took a crew to Uganda in 1974, after having received express permission to do a film portrait of the Ugandan President, who had assumed power in a coup d'etat...
...character and strength each candidate can project. Thus the three televised Ford-Carter debates could swing the outcome either way, not so much by what Ford and Carter actually say about the issues but by the general impression of their potential for leadership that they are able to convey to a nationwide audience...
...prepared address the next day. Carter left out a line criticizing political leaders who "ride in limousines too long." Why? Because, Carter explained, "I was kind of embarrassed" about the huge limo that the Secret Service had ordered to convey him to the Wasserman bash. The candidate thereupon directed that he be transported henceforth in regular cars, if security permits...