Word: tell
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...1930s the editor Henry Luce was more than pleased with the way his magazine, TIME, was covering the world's news. "Nevertheless," he felt, "people are missing relatively more of what the camera can tell than of what the reporter writes. With more or less success they 'follow' the news--i.e., the written news. They scarcely realize how fascinating it can be to 'follow' pictures--to be for the first time pictorially well-informed...
...know what you people want. You want someone to tell you what a tough year it was and what brave little soldiers you are for getting through it, wacky election and all. Or maybe you're expecting cute little phrases to sum things up, like, "The Dawn of the New Millennium" or "History in Our Hands" or "The Year Anne Heche Went Nuts in Some Poor Woman's House." Well, I'm not going to help you. You came to the wrong place...
...tell a lot about someone from the way they walk...
...lifelong student of the American comic strip, Schulz knew the universal power of varying a few basic themes. He said things clearly. He distilled human emotion to its essence. In a few tiny lines - a circle, a dash, a loop, and two black spots - he could tell anyone in the world what a character was feeling. He was a master at portraying emotion, and took a simple approach to character development, assigning to each figure in the strip one or two memorable traits and problems, often highly comic, which he reprised whenever the character reappeared...
...life," he once said. "I don't know why we are here. I think life is full of anxieties and fears and tears. It has a lot of grief in it, and it can be very grim. And I do not want to be the one who tries to tell somebody else what life is all about. To me it's a complete mystery...