Word: conveyer
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...Bactrian Bronze Age; a Greek limestone pillar and sundials from the 2nd century BC; Indian-related ivory figures and furniture from the 1st century AD; and a spectacular gold collection from Tillya-Tepe that includes bracelets, hearts, a crown, and even a pair of golden shoe soles meant to convey an aristocrat's disinclination for walking...
There are few better ways to start a day than with the breakfast and the morning newspaper. Those gray pages are not just a source of information, but also the product of hard work and devotion; they convey news hierarchically, not linearly, giving the reader a sense for what is most important, not just what happened most recently. Even the most mundane newspaper layout is a combination of art and psychology, the result of painstaking reworking designed to catch your eye and tell you all you need to know, concisely, unequivocally, and wittily. But the beauty of paper-based media...
...writing about apartheid-era South Africa, laudably attempts to move beyond her nation’s past to explore the complexities of transnational racial identities. But though some of the stories gathered in this collection achieve that goal, they appear between unrelated displays of literary pyrotechnics that fail to convey the same degree of moral seriousness, preventing the work from cohering into a satisfying whole.In the title story, Gordimer presents a plot so sparse and a narrative voice so fractured as to seem like a burlesque of the psychological depth that has characterized her writing. Of the protagonist...
...film features some breathtaking shots of the world’s natural and man-made wonders, overall the cinematography feels pedestrian. Many of the extreme stunts and locations appear computerized, lending a gimmicky sense the scenes. The script tends to be heavy-handed, relying largely on dialogue to convey emotions, instead of leaving the storytelling to Freeman and Nicholson. Where improvisation would have lent a natural air to the time that Cole and Chambers spend together, Justin Zackham’s writing impedes the viewer’s connection with the characters. Fortunately, the audience hardly needs to feel...
...this and previous albums, Ringo defies the rock convention best articulated by Neil Young: "It's better to burn out/ Than to fade away." Ringo's compositions convey an upbeat personal philosophy (sample line: "You've got to love every breath that you breathe/ Look at the sky and believe"). Unsurprisingly, such sentiments bear a distinct resemblance to the tenets of the 12-step programs devised to help alcoholics and drug addicts. He and his wife have been clean-living since they checked into rehab in Arizona in October 1988; cocaine and alcohol were reputed to be their downfall. Ringo...