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...over the vast seascapes and mountains of clouds. In “Amelia,” flying is about freedom and joy, an attitude completely forgotten in our modern age, with its long security queues and, since 9/11, vague sense of menace. Today, Earhart’s career is incomprehensible??her solo flights, undertaken simply to set records and to gain publicity, may be viewed with suspicion by audiences unfamiliar with her life before her infamous disappearance...
...potential continental crossovers as well. Dizzee Rascal, the spectacularly talented 18-year-old rapper and winner of this year’s Mercury, is tough to understand at the best of times. But for someone unacquainted with his East London wide-boy accent, his rapid, voice-cracking delivery is incomprehensible??let alone the fact that the garage idiom he has borrowed to underwrite his flow sounds almost entirely foreign to anyone raised on American...
...comparison seems right to me. Yesterday’s cruel hijackings and attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington are incomprehensible??for their infamy and not for some abstract sense of evil, but because I have a friend who worked in the financial district of New York, and I don’t know if he is alive. Residents in my house made frantic telephone calls to check on the health of parents who were visiting the Pentagon. Yesterday is simply incomprehensible because, for the first time, I felt an irrational...
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