Word: conveys
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...meant to convey a mood, an interpretation, no less than the story it accompanies." To illustrate his point, we have assembled a gallery of TIME originals for an exhibit opening next week at Los Angeles' Otis Art Institute. The 124 pieces of portraiture, caricature, sculpture and graphic design form a kind of life-size scrapbook of the personalities and issues of recent history...
Classic Cynicism. Fortunately for the book, Gay Talese and Bill Bonanno look at the world in somewhat the same way, because it is Talese's use of fiction techniques to convey the charged moments in Bill Bonanno's life that gives Honor Thy Father its drive. Talese once wrote: "Whether men's ambitions are fulfilled in the arena of politics or banking or business or crime, it makes little difference; and the most brutal acts are easily justified in the name of necessity and honor...
Gerald lived until 1964. He would have been delighted by Tomkins' book. A marvel of taste and economy, it manages to convey the originality and grace of the Murphys' life. But one suspects that what Gerald would admire most is the 43-page section of pictures, presented as modestly as a family album-no large format, no color, no glossy paper, every expense spared. The simplicity only enhances the subjects: Picasso preening on La Garoupe; Cole Porter mugging on the Piazza San Marco; Hemingway displaying a day's catch; the Murphys' two small sons, looking...
...produced "a most frightful mess." He warned that "this is something this country is about to discover if and when it joins the Common Market." When the British press pounced on the Prince for meddling in political matters, Buckingham Palace hastily explained that he had not meant to convey an antiMarket attitude. Still, some Britons could not help but feel that even though Philip frequently shoots from the lip, this time his remarks just might have reflected the feelings of the Queen...
...demolished any lingering faith that the nation's weightiest decisions are made by deliberative men, calmly examining all the implications of a policy and then carefully laying out their reasoning in depth. The proliferation of papers, the cabled requests for clarification, the briskness of language but not of logic, convey an impression of harassed men, thinking and writing too quickly and sometimes being mystified at the enemy's refusal to conform to official projections...