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The poet Derek Walcott once wrote, "To change your language you must change your life." Translations can change poems (the Aeneid, for example, has an elegant architecture that's hard to rebuild in English), and translations can ruin movies (who wants to see the dubbed version of Crouching Tiger, Hidden...
It is important not to be transfixed. The police screamed to the people running from the towers, "Don't look back!"--a biblical warning against the power of the image. Terrorism is sometimes described (in a frustrated, oh-the-burdens-of-great-power tone of voice) as "asymmetrical warfare." So...
It is important not to be transfixed. The police screamed to the people running from the towers, ?Don?t look back!??a biblical warning against the power of the image. Terrorism is sometimes described (in a frustrated, oh-the-burdens-of-great-power tone of voice) as ?asymmetrical warfare.? So...
It is important not to be transfixed. The police screamed to the people running from the towers, "Don't look back!" - a biblical warning against the power of the image. Terrorism is sometimes described (in a frustrated, oh-the-burdens-of-great-power tone of voice) as "asymmetrical warfare." So...
But the archive is also just a fun place to browse. You can go to the cover collection and look at the cover images by year. One of my favorites is an elegant Al Hirschfeld line drawing of Jay Leno from 1992. Of course, I also wrote that story, but...