In the anti-illusionist theatre, the artist became not only the means of putting across a message but to some extent the originator of it.
Scientists struggled to put across a clear message with sufficient force, for one.
It's easy to see the effects of that pressure in "Aftershock," and it's also possible to guess at moments in which Mr. Feng is trying to put across a different message, like the prominence in the plot of a Tiananmen Square souvenir book bag, or that — unremarked upon by anyone on screen — for a significant period after the 1976 earthquake no one arrives to help.
But that's just one small side of PR; PR can also mean putting across a positive message that happens to be true.
But with soccer now reaching a global audience, it is the perfect tool to put across a political message to millions of people around the world.
When it comes to condoms, part of educators' problem seems to be their attempt to utilise condoms' inherent comedy value to try and put across a more serious message: something which, admittedly, this article is also trying to do, and is probably failing at.
Here too Atwood is putting across a relevant and intelligent political message, which can easily be summed up: don't trust the scientists and the big corporations to run the world.
At the same time, we'd like to put across a message from today's ceremony, a message of peace … A message for Europe.
On Old Rock n Roll they put across a message of unity rather than an "us versus them" mentality: "I'm tired of playing the good black…I'm tired of blaming the white man... a black man can play him.
Astley writes: "In politics, television, newspapers and advertising, language is often negative, reductive, stripped of full expression to put across a message – it's spun or twisted out of recognition … Instead of being used to communicate, it is used to control thinking, as a tool of power".
Even with someone who is normally polite, they may be struggling to put across a message effectively using the email rather than aiming to be rude.
