Word: conveys
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Though many of the questioners tried to pin Shepard down to descriptions of his own work, Shepard--as he has done in the past-refuses to be categorized. "I've got nothing to say," says the humble Shepard. He explains that the motivation for his work is not to convey any specific message, but varies from play to play...
Once the bourgeoisie had decided not to talk about what it did, it created a new symbolic language, both verbal and nonverbal, to convey information. Middle-class women no longer got pregnant, for example; they became enceinte, or were "in an interesting condition." Painters and sculptors thrilled staid merchants with luscious nudes fig-leafed with titles like Venus Now Wakes. Manet's Olympia shocked the salon of 1865 not because she was naked but because she looked back at the viewer with the defiant eyes of a thoroughly contemporary Parisian courtesan. On second thought, said Freud...
...simple description sets up an atmosphere of repression and degeneration. The list of decaying physical objects and the emphasis on what lies hidden behind the gates, doors, and windows of these ruined buildings convey the mediocrity and frustration middle class life has imposed on the narrator much more effectively than the most elaborate metaphor could...
...Picture Department undertakes a very different assignment: creating the special section called Images, a portfolio of the year's best photographs. The pictures are chosen not to be helpful supplements to the news, but as superb visual representations in their own right that have the power to convey the sense or mood of an entire story...
...quotations that accompany the photographs were the responsibility of Reporter-Researchers Peggy Berman, Zona Sparks and Rosemarie Tauris Zadikov. They culled hundreds of TIME stories, correspondents' files, newspapers and books to find the appropriate words that would convey not only information about, but the ambience of, an event. Says Berman: "You offer a selection of quotations, but always know when you have found exactly the right...