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...faced not only suppression and exile but the extinction of her native language. Under Franco, Catalan’s very existence was threatened, banned outright in the public sphere and severely curtailed in the private sphere. In this context, while translations of Spanish language novels achieved worldwide fame and renown in the 1970s and 1980s, Catalan writers remained obscure, even after Franco’s death in 1975, when the ban on Catalan was lifted. With her translation of “Death in Spring,” Martha Tennent hopes to begin to redress this historic injustice. How deeply...
...chances are you remember the infectious whistled hook and pitter-patter bongos of Peter Bjorn and John’s “Young Folks.” Its innate cuteness won enough hearts to pass into mainstream consciousness and catapult the Swedish trio to relative renown. Its sheer ubiquity was perhaps best revealed when Kanye West remixed it on his mixtape “Can’t Tell Me Nothing.” PB&J followed up the success of “Young Folks” with a couple pleasant but unmemorable diversions: an album of instrumentals...
Slowly, Cape Town's scene is showing signs of new life. This year, for example, marks the 10th anniversary of the Cape Town International Jazz Festival, which is fast gaining global renown. Scheduled for April 3-4, it now has more local artists than ever on the bill...
...gravitas,” the rare fusion of academic credibility and past experience in public service, and the renown in the field of international relations that make him an optimal find, Frankel said...
...Keith became Eartha Kitt - discarding an ordinary surname for one of inspired felinity. It heralded the sex kitten who purred the lyrics to her lightly naughty hit singles of the early '50s; whose sophisticated persona in films and on Broadway barely concealed her claws; and who would achieve camp renown as the prowling, growling Catwoman on the '60s Batman TV series...