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“I FEEL like Dorothy in ‘The Wizard of Oz’; picked up by a whirlwind and dropped down in a land where everything is much more brightly coloured,” says Thomas Campbell, who on January 1st became the ne...

“我感觉像《绿野仙踪》里的桃乐茜；被一阵旋风刮起，然后在一个地方掉了下来，那里一切都是色彩斑斓，”托马斯·坎贝尔的描述恰如其分，也令人出乎意外。 [2009年]元月一日他成为了纽约大都会艺术博物馆的新任管理人和行政总裁。 坎贝尔出生于英国，...

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THE stately descent of an eyelid; the five-minute burning glance; tears frozen on a heroine’s cheek; the moustachioed hero standing to pained attention; the slowly circling dance of attendants in and ...

一只眼皮高贵的下垂；眼睛扫射全场5分钟；女主角的脸庞挂着泪滴；八字胡的男主角站在人群中分外耀眼夺目；伴着没完没了的曲子，幕布内外的演员们围成圈子慢慢地跳着舞。 。 。 。 。 。 在沙米·卡普尔到来之前，这些都是宝莱坞的老一套。 他也能循规...

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EVERY summer holiday when he was at school, Carlos Fuentes would stay with his grandmothers, one in Veracruz, on the steamy Gulf coast, the other from Mazatlán, near the badlands of Sinaloa on the Pac...

上学时的每个暑假，卡洛斯·富恩特斯都会与他的祖母们呆在一起，一位在潮湿的墨西哥海湾维拉克鲁斯州，另一位来自太平洋锡那罗亚州不毛之地上的马萨兰特。 两位女士给这只小男孩讲故事，讲关于墨西哥，关于革命，关于离开这片土地去建设城市的农民，关于歹徒...

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SLOWLY, though his heart was pounding like a runner’s, Roman Opalka approached the canvas. He had painted it completely black. The date, though he set no store by dates, was 1965. Clenched in his left...

尽管心跳已如奔跑的人一样快，罗曼·欧帕尔卡还是慢慢地走到画布前。 画布已经被他全部涂上了纯黑色。 这一天，尽管他没有记录日期，是在1965年。 他左手端着一碟白色丙烯酸颜料，右手握住0号笔刷（标准号码里面最小的笔刷），然后笔尖蘸上颜料，轻柔...

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Book and arts. Book review. American business in wartime. Democracy's arsenal. Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II. By Arthur Herman. “WHAT is America but be...

书籍和艺术 书评美国的战时经济 民主阵营的兵工厂《铸就自由：美国工业如何赢得了二战》亚瑟·赫尔曼着。 “除了选美皇后、百万富翁、可笑的记录和好莱坞，美国还有啥？”阿道夫·希特勒1940年这样问。 现在回头看，这几乎可以算二战期间人们提出的最...

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A SCHOOLBOY once asked George Daniels what he had at the end of the chain that led to his pocket. A silly question, really. But it was worth asking, because what Mr Daniels pulled out, carefully, was ...

一名男学生曾经问乔治·丹尼尔斯，他那根伸进衣袋的链子末端有什么。 多么愚蠢的问题。 但是值得一答。 因为丹尼尔斯小心翼翼从口袋里拿出来的表被他称为“宇宙旅行者之表”。 表盘上不仅能显示平太阳时，还能显示平恒星时、时差，记录月相。 丹尼尔斯说...

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Book and arts. Book review. Immortality. For ever and ever. Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilisation. By Stephen Cave. IMMORTALITY is an age-old obsession. Plenty o...

书籍和艺术书评永生追求永生《永生：对长命百岁的追求及这是如何影响文明》史提芬·凯夫着永生是人们亘古不变的追求。 不论是苏美尔人的《《吉尔迦美什史诗》，还是荷马的诗歌，亦或是《旧约》，大量的文学作品都以此为主题。 历经了数个世纪，人们都追求着...

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Sirte, where he was born in a Bedouin tent in the sand-wastes and died amid the crackle of sniper fire; Misrata, where he went to a private tutor to learn history; Benghazi, where at military college ...

苏尔特，卡扎菲生于荒野沙漠的贝多因帐篷内，葬身于阻击的枪林弹雨之中。 在米苏拉塔，卡扎菲拜访家庭教师学习历史。 在班加西军事院校时，卡扎菲开始策划起义；在的黎波里巴布阿齐耶耶区时，他的军营一半被炸，七零八散；然而，这位穆斯林领袖又在此安营扎...