Word: conveys
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...micro, from the eruption of Krakatau to the silent messages of chromosomes. He strives for clarity, but never at the expense of complexity. An explanation of how species evolve may require more attention than Homo televideous is willing to muster. Hang in. Accounts of the author's field experiences convey an excitement of discovery that many readers probably last felt as children examining insects in a patch of grass...
Without "pressure" foundations like the American Cancer Society, which use education to convey the immediate need for scientific research funding, the lay person is lost in a smorgasbord of scientific information impossible to digest without the help of scientific writers...
...have to fear is fear itself") and lends a certain credibility to his painful prescriptions. Much of what he proposes is philosophically charming, but the sacrifice he posits would be borne unequally, and his numbers are as questionable as those of his rivals. His pie charts and bar graphs convey heft, but when studied carefully, the bottom line relies on so many dubious and unspecific assumptions (how, exactly, are health-care costs to be contained?) that his repeated assertion is effectively refuted: it is not "just that simple...
...different subjects, including landscapes, portraits of peasants and nature studies. Common to most of the pieces are sharp pen and ink lines and warm, subtle washes of color. One example of a landscape work is "A Dilapidated Farmhouse" by Abraham Bloemaert. The small ink lines are used sparingly, yet convey great detail--a few quick lines on a wall suggest hundreds of bricks. The warm color is built up with washes of brown and gray with pink highlights. Like the other pieces in the show, this work shows an intimate scene that gives the viewer a glimpse...
Beschloss and I were in Moscow last December researching a book we have been writing on the end of the cold war. On Dec. 14, one of Gorbachev's closest aides asked us to convey a message to James Baker, who was due in the Soviet capital the next day. The approach was less peculiar than it may sound. The Soviet Union was disintegrating; its last leader, then 11 days from resigning, was already in limbo. Gorbachev and his loyalists believed that the U.S. embassy had long since become a nest of Yeltsinites and would not be a reliable channel...