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Carson also brings her translator??s eye to the words of her emotionally and physically distant brother. “Because our conversations were few (he phoned me maybe 5 times in 22 years) I study his sentences the ones I remember as if I’d been asked to translate them,” she writes. In translating, it is necessary to parse each word in an attempt to understand how it relates, thematically and grammatically, to every other word in the poem in which it appears. Carson studies with similar rigor each inexplicable decision...
Wodiczko relies predominantly on documentary in his work. Most of the dialogue he presents comes directly from veterans. This technique, in effect, positions Wodiczko in the role of translator??by projecting the veterans’ words and playing them at full volume, the artist focuses on, but does not profess to change, their messages. The choice Wodiczko makes to amplify the voices with loudspeakers and display the videos on public buildings is deliberate. His confrontational style unavoidably instills in the stories a larger political message that the veterans may not have originally intended...
Interrupting the translator??his remarks alternated between English and Tibetan— the Dalai Lama quipped that his prayers would not actually be that helpful. “Hard work is better,” he said...
Soprani—who spoke to the crowd in Spanish through a translator??said she originally worked a day shift when she started at Harvard about two years ago. But ACME/Pioneer’s management forced her to take a night shift last September to keep her job, she said...
After the tour, Sorenson ushered her protégés into a conference room ringed by translator??s booths and microphones, where she had invited four high-level guests to speak...