Word: conveys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Godard calls cinema "truth twenty-four times a second," a debatable point when we consider that the foundation of film technique, both narrative and experimental, is still that of montage, the art of putting shots together to convey something other than that conveyed by each individual shot--an art of illusion. But the truth of the image itself is beyond question; regardless of the motivations of the men who create films, and their skill at suggesting connections which metaphysically must not exist, film-making is supremely pure: a recording by the camera of that which stands before the lens...
...cruelty of their lines to each other is intensified by the mutual fear that the actors convey. Sheila Hart starts out sounding like Paul McCartney's grandfather in "A Hard Day's Night", but soon turns chillingly vicious...
...statute says very clearly that all "citizens of the U.S. shall have the same right, in every state and territory, as is enjoyed by white citizens thereof, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold and convey real and personal property." Congress, said Justice Potter Stewart, "meant exactly what it said." And it had the power to say so under the 13th Amendment, which, according to an earlier court decision, had enabled the legislature to abolish "all badges and incidents of slavery." In addition, said Stewart, Congress had not indicated any distinction between private and public acts of discrimination. "So long...
...works that utilize one of the most venerable conventions of representative painting-perspective. Though the impressionists made light of it, the cubists deliberately flouted it, and abstract expressionists ignored it, perspective now seems to be staging a comeback-with a significant difference. Where the Renaissance relied on it to convey an illusion of reality,* the new painters use it as a playful device for emphasizing the gap between reality and illusion...
...developed by 15th century draftsmen, perspective is a set of rules that enables the artist to convey the illusion of three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional plane by making his structural lines converge at an imaginary "vanishing point" on an imaginary horizon at the viewer's eye level...