Word: conveys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...straighter posture in an identical chair when protesting outrageous alimony demands. Waiting for the P.T.A. meeting to begin, he sprawls. Waiting for the loan officer to finish a phone call, he assumes the well-known suppliant's crouch, a kind of sidesaddle, lock-kneed pose designed to convey simultaneously fiscal responsibility and abject need...
Died. Randall Davey, 77, leader of Santa Fe's art colony, best known for equestrian studies that convey the raw-edged excitement of race tracks with gaudy colors and slapdash compositions, but most appreciated for his brutally incisive portraits (at fees up to $10,000) of such notables as John Galsworthy and the late Defense Secretary James Forrestal; of injuries when his Jaguar overturned near Baker, Calif...
Almost every piece in the Fall issue lacks a sense of life or relevancy which only vivid language can convey--strong verbs and taut imagery are prominently absent. The Advocate too often wallows in flat prose and free poetry, modes that were once, long ago, refreshing but are now, in less expert hands, stale and tired. In this issue, flat means not spare but listless, even flabby, and free means not spontaneous and natural but formless, thoughtless, and overly moody...
...real stinker. The director, Samuel Goldwyn Jr. (wonder how he got the job?) has evidently seen Jules and Jim; every time Peter Fonda and Sharon Hugueny melt into each other's arms, the air fills with a familiar kind of harps-and-strings music. It's supposed to convey the impression of joyful undergraduate love, but it only conveys the impression that the scene is taking place in the Waldorf Cafeteria...
...President Kennedy's assassination. Osborn is one of the few to do so successfully, mainly because he stays away from direct images of the people involved. He uses instead the themes of a violinist and a bat, a swish of red, and a tiny collage of roses, to convey a feeling of virtuosity and winged terror...