Word: conveys
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...photography's reach. A camera is the unique, most dynamic extension of man. It can take him into veiled worlds and let him be an eyewitness to dangerous, inaccessible events. Our job is to select those pictures that have immediate impact, an impact that words alone sometimes cannot convey...
...pictures are also general metaphors of the contrast between life and death. The luminous, dusty, Apollonian terra cottas and oranges of Great Wall of China equally convey a sense of exuberance, of heat and fruitfulness. The August Sea, 1971, one of a series of paintings that relate to his summers on the coast at Provincetown, Mass., is suffused with a literally oceanic peace: the spreading field of blue, Mallarme's azure, the color of space and of openness, dapple with swift strokes of green, with a black line rising through it like the faintly swaying mast of a ship...
...GRANTS Mrs. Portnoy is definitely TV, with sprayed hair, straight nose, facile mannerisms. Karen Black as the Monkey manages to convey sexual elasticity but is pretty hommed in by the rest of the film, as is Jack Somack who as the father has a great constipated look...
...hone a point or a joke until it loses its edge. In one se quence Rosemonde is shown at work, standing beside a machine that stuffs sausages inside skins with regular bursts of phallic efficiency. The image is funny and outrageous at first, but Tanner holds it longer to convey Rose monde's glazed boredom, then longer still, as if congratulating himself on his own cleverness...
...capacity to share in family life. The mother of one child at the center was "thrilled" when her son used symbols to say that he was angry about some things but that he loved his family. Kari's mother voiced surprise and delight when Kari managed to convey her sadness over the fact that her guinea pig cannot think...