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Babushka Z CosplayThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
A Ukrainian great-grandmother inadvertently becomes a pro-Russian icon.
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Child KingsThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
« Time is a child playing draughts; the kingship is a child’s. »
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Of trotting horses & angelic wordsThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
I was reminded of Muybridge’s moving pictures while looking at the serial attempts of Ambrogio Lorenzetti (d. 1348/49) at rendering the invisible visible.
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Panties of the peopleThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
The hall burst into laughter. I was left completely puzzled.〖 Found in translation 〗
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Overalls & eyeglassesThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
The glasses looked surprisingly like the ones in my Facebook profile.〖 Found in translation 〗
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The Mass of MiesThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
« Less is more »? The scale and shape of his body gave the architect Mies van der Rohe an unequaled weight and architectural authority.
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Judge a book by its coversThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
The task is to hold your attention for more than three seconds.〖 Found in translation 〗
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« droid » ➞ « druid »This article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
The translator had probably not been familiar with Star Wars.〖 Found in translation 〗
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« Bidoon » ➞ « Bedouin »This article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
A violent mistranslation I still find amusing was with a poem titled 1965.〖 Found in translation 〗
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No money off a dead woman’s body (& other poems)This article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
« I like my tyrants like I like my heroes. That is, crushed by a giant chandelier. »
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Coagulated soy juiceThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
〖 A killed darling. 〗 Lucia Berlin belonged to a less sanctimonious age than ours.
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Two palindromesThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
→ → Pursuing / you lead me to come to the future.← ← coming to the future, I lead you / demanding.
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The South Bronx did not existThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
〖 A killed darling. 〗 Spoiler alert: it did.
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Marx and the art of natural winemakingThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
The grapes are tiny, burnt to a crisp. It’s day two of the harvest, in late August — freakishly early in a year of drought and heat waves. What is wine?
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Longing + debtThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
〖 A killed darling 〗 And — I failed. I replaced this paragraph.
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Dinosaurs + dolphinsThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
〖 A killed darling 〗 A joke format that endured for precisely one week.
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A can-can dancer performs a Christmas treeThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
〖 A killed darling 〗 Being alone in a new city over the holidays was wonderful and, as it happened, not to be repeated.
