Word: impartation
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...TIME are usually credited with having invented group journalism, the application of many minds to one story. We'll accept that credit, but we're equally proud of another tradition: when an individual writer or correspondent has something special to impart, we make space on our pages for that writer's words alone. This is true of weekly stories, and also of regular columns. Since 1973 Hugh Sidey has written a column for TIME on the presidency as seen from his own special perspective. For twelve years Tom Griffith has dispensed his seasoned views on the press in his Newswatch...
These little lives, spun out in a time and place far distant from us, would be easy to ignore. But they are all vividly played, and Bille August's gifts for austere, striking imagery and for the short, perfectly shaped scene impart to this film an epic richness, range and energy...
...women with the patience of Job, wisdom of Solomon and ability to prepare the next generation for productive citizenship under highly adverse and sometimes dangerous conditions. Applicant must be willing to fill gaps left by unfit, absent or working parents, satisfy demands of state politicians and local bureaucrats, impart healthy cultural and moral values and -- oh, yes -- teach the three Rs. Hours: 50-60 a week. Pay: fair (getting better). Rewards: mostly intangible...
...become sterile and precious. Fortunately, Pavic's imagination is equal to the task. He peoples his history of the history of the Khazars with vampires, religious ascetics, devils, golems, star-crossed lovers and a Turkish pasha who makes love only to the dying. Exotic details or metaphors not only impart a flavor of strangeness to the book, but also send a reader scurrying back and forth through the pages, trying to remember where he has come across a hand with two thumbs, a grave shaped like a goat or a fruit that resembles a live fish...
...candidate's chartered plane fires back across the continent against the direction of old westering tracks 30,000 ft. below. Inside the plane, the clerisy of "spin," that is, the priesthood of partisans sent around to see reporters after major campaign events and impart the right spin, have done their work up and down the aisles, like Polonius and Hamlet discussing the ! shapes of clouds. The candidate is dozing up front. The jackals of the press have settled into their routines of mild carousal...