Lake Shore
“The cliché is your enemy.” –from a handbook on writing It is not easy to admit this on paper, but the surface of the lake is sparkling very much like …
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Election Watch: Buddies in Bad Times
“Those are my principles. If you don’t like them, I have others.”
Read MoreDubbing, Italian-Style
On the artistic consequence of Mussolini’s distaste for foreign languages
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China Beach, Then and Now
danang—“Charlie don’t surf – but you can,” promises the Internet brochure for the U.K.-based Wild Frontiers “Apocalypse Now 2004” tour of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. The line is a paraphrase …
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The Downsized Dream Car
On the Smart Car, a tiny automotive experiment that is not much bigger than a desk chair
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The Fixers
On the ground with the Canadian Forces who maintain the air force’s fleet of aged Sea King maritime helicopters
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What Lies Beneath
“DORIDE is a character who is viewing herself in her own imaginary world. The underwater world is like the world where dreams or art live. It’s not clear whether the …
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Only Too Happy to Oblige
Sucking up: a brief history
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A Moveable Feast
The Mediterranean Diet, an essentially American myth, is at last coming to the Mediterranean region itself
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