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...translations you’re always going to lose some part of the author’s vision.”To fully preserve that vision, the play will not have any English-language aids, including captions. Before attending, the audience should brush up on their Spanish; during the performance, viewers can also rely on stage action. “I think [the viewers are] going to pay a lot more attention to the sounds, the actions, the expressions of the performers, which in some sense adds more to the theatrical experience because people will be seeing all manners...
...arbiters of Asian art didn't always reward such experimentalism. In the great art academies of India, China and Vietnam, technical skill and an ability to reference the region's rich cultural heritage outweighed social commentary or renegade brush strokes. For centuries, Chinese students spent their school years laboriously copying the ink landscapes of ancient masters. The same held true in India, where artistic merit often was equated either with an ability to reproduce themes from religious epics or mimic the miniaturist details of the Mughals. In Vietnam, the 20th century's most promising painters attended the École...
...terrifying brush with ritual murder brought to mind some much-ignored advice I received several years ago: Open stacks, my mom had told me for countless hours as we tooled down rural highways on a masochistic college tour, are a vital element of advanced education...
...World Traveler courses, available on personal video screens. Now other airlines are following suit - this year, Continental, KLM and Air France began offering the onboard language-tuition program, which teaches the basics of up to 23 languages in 21 languages. So should you be from Brazil and need to brush up on your Tamil, or from Vietnam and require a few phrases of Arabic, a course option will have it covered. The lessons are structured by theme - numbers, dates, words and dialogue - and there are tests and games to keep you entertained. Passengers who complete a course may even...
...once every five years, sees senior cadres of the 70 million-strong Party gather to hammer out what policies the central government will pursue until the next meeting. More importantly to many, they also decide who will be implementing those policies - and who will be going back home to brush up a bit more on their Das Kapital...