Word: conveys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reassured by Robes. Film clips gave U.S. officials-both civilian and mili tary-a chance to state their side of the story. But loaded questions and slanted comment managed to convey the impression that the U.S. had not only bungled badly, but was operating according to some Machiavellian plan uncovered by intrepid reporting. Had the revolution been in danger of being taken over by Communists as President Johnson claimed? One CBS man had his doubts because he had seen "dozens of lawyers" among the rebels, "marching in their robes of office." Were U.S. troops neutral, as U.S. policy ordered? Film...
...hosts support them in idle luxury. Usually, a few of the parasites cling to the fire ant queen by means of specially adapted mandibles that fit around her neck without hurting her. When a worker comes to feed her with regurgitated food, the parasites flut ter their antennae, apparently convey ing a compelling message that makes the worker feed the parasites instead of the queen...
...DeBakey while he was performing several operations. For the background, Koerner chose the overhead lamp of an operating room and an oscilloscope that monitors a patient's heart and pulse. "I learn something from every operation," DeBakey says; it was his meditative post-operative mood Koerner sought to convey...
This week's cover, Steinberg's first for TIME, shows the artist in his more intricate mode of expression. He sought to convey his view of space communications as a maze of reflections of one thing to another. Since his forte is satire, he did not fail to convey the somewhat frightening prospect of man's new capability to store a mass of information and, on signal, send it anywhere in the world. His drawing, both asuming and sobering, is one to study and ponder...
...daughter should be fragile, but Piper Laurie is invulnerable, too blooming healthy by half. The acting task is noticeably beyond her when she tries to convey an unanticipated breath of life with cocktail-party animation. As for the son, he should be as insubstantial as glass, a dreamer caught between his mother's mirage of the past and his own dream of the future, but there is more petulance than poetry in George Grizzard's steely eye and shifty stance...