Word: conveys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...short and sketchy to be much more than frustrating. Edgar Snow's photographs of healthy and hard-working Chinese are appealing (there are many more in his book The Other Side of the River, along with 900 pages of first-hand experience). But the comments that go with them convey little more than a vague impression of post-Revolution advancement...
...individual character, pried out the significant wrinkle and the evanescent gesture. He parted his subjects' lips so that they seemed ready to speak. Unlike the rococo court sculptors who used the female figure as cool erotic decoration, the neoclassical Houdon used the solid curves of woman to convey sensible warmth. His Shivering Girl and an even more naked Diana were denied admission to the Paris Salon in 1785. Said a critic: "She was too beautiful and too nude to be exposed in public." In short, Houdon was too faithful and true to life...
...mean "controversial" in the gossipy sense, but rather to convey the taste of shock which some of his suggestions produce. "I hope that in coming years," Hughes writes...
...Institute, 515 Park Ave. at 60th. A Hungarian who migrated to the Holy Land 30 years ago, Gilboa settled in the artists' colony at Safad and became one of Israel's popular painters. The oils in his first U.S. exhibition are technically amateurish, but his watercolors adroitly convey an obvious affection for ancient alleyways, sun-parched marketplaces, and the Galilean countryside. Through...
...gospel. Which is more truly history, the narration of Luke and Matthew (transeat its literary form), or the eviscerated version lucubrated by the gnosis of the demythologizers? Evidently the former. If the hermeneutical scalpel is to be wielded in public, one must use great care lest he convey to the little ones that Scrooge was correct when he said of the Christmas tale, "Bah, humbug...