Word: conveyer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...communicates its truth a difference which roughly mirrors that between plain speech and storytelling. Even the most inept can usually keep from bludgeoning beyond recognition the moral of a good story aided, as the storyteller is by the imaginations of his listeners. Finding someone who can convey a similar message out of the clods of rough earth or his own experience and who can do so with the subtlety and irony needed to drive the point home poses a somewhat more difficult problem. Perhaps for this reason, few essayists burn in the memory as writers of the first class...
...novels lose much in the transition from print to film. The process involves boiling a 300-plus page novel down to about 120 pages for almost two hours of film: to do this the author must simplify plot lines, remove minor characters and trust in his actors' abilities to convey the emotions written into the novel. The result may be radically different from the original prose work. And yet Dunne shows no signs of abandoning the silver screen or slackening his work at the typewriter. With a critically well-received movie like True Confessions and a needle-sharp novel like...
During most of the post-World War II era, offices, apartments and even billboards have dwarfed church steeples. In response, religious buildings have frantically vied for attention with bizarre bell towers, frenzied A-frames and strange paraboloids. But until recently, few churches have managed to convey a religious quality beyond that of a contorted steeple or a neon JESUS SAVES sign...
...parlor for small weddings and other assemblies, a social hall, a youth center and a library with staff offices. It was conceived in the Pilgrim and Puritan tradition of early New England churches, but its form is traditional only in that the white-trimmed gray clapboard and spire convey a sense of historic continuity. The architecture is closer to the modern simplicity of Mies van der Rohe than the baroque intricacy of Sir Christopher Wren...
...book name and the first stanza of its title work convey the message of most of the first half of the book--entrapment in urban society...