Word: translatese
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Levine's short muscular lines capture not just the sense of loss but also the wonder that loss antedates. Oddly, the memory dodges bathos and becomes elegiac. A grown man retraces the field where he once hacked away at milkweed plants, and sees "a froth of seeds" from the...
He may not know about what Rickie Lee calls "extensive education in music at home." Born in Chicago, hard by Wrigley Field, the third child of a couple "in the restaurant business" (which, from the ironic Jones argot, translates as "waiter and waitress"), Rickie Lee had a vagabond childhood. Her...
In America, if a man wants to signal his wife that it is time to leave a party, he is likely to tilt his head and roll his eyes in the direction of the door. In France, the signal is sharper: a chopping motion by one hand against the opposite...
Three Days of the Condor. Always use the back door. You never know, you may slip out for lunch one minute and return the next, pastrami and mustard in hand to find all your office mates spread across their desks, covered with blood. Meek and mild-mannered Robert Redford, who...
*A Persian name that translates literally as People's Sacrifice guerrillas. The group has been widely but erroneously referred to by the Arabic term fedayeen, which means warriors who are prepared to risk their lives recklessly.