Word: conveys
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John Pym played the goodhearted dimwit Irwin Ingham. He too, though he's the only first-rate comedian at Harvard, did more than grub for laughs. At first you noticed the variety of expressions he used to convey dimwittedness. And how perfectly his baggy pants suited his clumsy movements. But Pym is indefatigable. At the end, when he confessed the skepticism he'd felt all along about Party success, benevolence toward his Leader radiated from his muddled face. His companion, Prentiss Claflin, wasn't as whole a man. Still, considering that he was on book for an ailing member...
...this month at Philadelphia's Museum of Art, Van Gogh was in more than one major respect a 19th century man. While today's painters see their paintings as objects in themselves and delight in elaborate techniques, Van Gogh used the simplest mediums he could find to convey his own intense response to the world about...
...subjects' lives. In this way they were perhaps following the lead of the fine television series based on John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage. The scripts will win no literary prizes, but they do incorporate a good deal of historically accurate information and also manage to convey an idea of their characters' personalities...
...blue and transparent plastic piece by Katsuhiro Yamaguchi, and the giant slab of plastic Swiss cheese called Blue Dots by Noriyasu Fukushima have the same cleanness as Robert Morris' silvery series of knife-edged I-beams and Donald Judd's turquoise modular grids. All four works convey a feeling of openness and expansion, a common dedication to a spatial rhythm that can, in theory at least, be repeated to infinity...
...determined Cowsills are fresh and attractive, and their close-harmonied, sprightly performances convey a great deal of their offstage charm. But good as they are for their age (the boys range from 11 to 19, Barbara is 39), too often they offer only a lightweight delivery of a derivative song...