Word: conveys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could ban Joyce's Ulysses, which was cleared for U.S. sale 33 years ago. "Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself," said Stewart. "The Constitution protects coarse expression as well as refined, and vulgarity no less than elegance. A book worthless to me may convey something of value to my neighbor. In the free society to which our Constitution has committed us, it is for each to choose for himself...
...exciting to the kids after they view a film showing buds bursting into leaves through speeded-up film. A similar movie, also speeded up, shows how a caterpillar spins a cocoon, emerges as a splendid monarch butterfly-an experience no textbook or teacher or even nature can otherwise convey...
...SHOW. Against a background portrait of the grinning "Me Worry?" symbol, five cavorting performers convey a more or less Mad message through zany skits and impersonations. Thanks to the cast, the show is funnier than its material...
...task is to capture in one visual moment the character of a book which may be several hundred pages long. Specialized books of non-fiction don't need eye-catching jackets, for scientific and scholarly works are usually purchased for their academic reputations. The jackets of such books must convey simply the competence of their contents through sober design. But the typical reader of fiction is looking for entertainment, so fiction jackets must promise reading pleasure to undecided browsers...
...Four Hundred Blows presents an isolated slice of its hero's life, and the film comes to no set conclusions, contrary to the then-conventional practice of "packaging" the plot. Instead, Truffaut develops the poetic possibilities of his subject, calling on a wide range of visual metaphors to convey his subjective message. In addition, the scene in which the hero is interviewed by a prison psychologist introduced the so-called cinema-verite technique of prolonged interviews which populates many New Wave films...