Word: conveys
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...rushes through a speech as if it were a tongue-twister. Every line in her Method-y delivery proclaims, "I've been through analysis," making her an aural, if not visual anachronism. (This is an era when Freud was still playing with little boys.) Keaton can't convey intellect the way Maureen Stapleton, in fine full figure and sturdy croak...
...people with history than have the historians, and sometimes they have given history a push," she writes in her opening piece. Throughout the collection, she turns again and again to poetry, quoting Emerson, Kipling, Longfellow, Tennyson and Poe. In the end she concludes, "What the poets did was to convey the feeling of an episode or a moment of history as they sensed it. The historian's task is rather to tell what happened within discussion of facts...
...cast, equally convincing, avoids the pitfall of letting all the characters sound alike as they frantically battle the same evil. Most of the roles fall in groups. But whether a terrified child, fanatical judge or desperate, martyred farmer, each actor manages to create an individual personality and consistently convey it. And the other actors on whom the show's believability rides--Maja Hellmold as Abigail, Jennifer Devine as Proctor's wife Elizabeth, and Jay Mattlin as Danforth, condemning to death by hanging all those who do not confess they are guilty of witchcraft--flesh out each role to the fullest...
...Funeral Games it is his absence that motivates events. Yet the novelist-historian has done a fine job in focusing nearly half a century of chaos. Her prose, as usual, has an Attic clarity; her research is sound and her imagined scenes cenotaphs. Lacking the actual remains, they convey the unparalleled aura of Alexander and his time...
Negotiation rarely works if it is a merely mechanical compromise of polar extremes conducted, as the behavioral scientist says, "in a complex mixed-motive ambience of trust and suspicion." The best negotiations are inventive. A feistily savvy book, Herb Cohen's You Can Negotiate Anything, manages to convey the impression that all negotiations should even be fun; at the end of each, like the six solved faces of a Rubik's Cube, lies a "win-win" settlement-a mutuality in which both sides profit. Another recent book, Getting to Yes, arrives (a little more rigorously) at the same...