(cold call) An unsolicited visit or telephone call made by someone trying to sell goods or services: the salesmen spend most of their time making cold calls on perfect strangers
"Everybody was in kind of a special blizzard festival mood. It made the occasion more exciting actually than it might have been... A city becomes festive when a blizzard falls on it and everybody feels helpless anyway and perfect strangers embrace and everybody becomes friends and sings and jumps in the snow. "
--Leonard Bernstein, describing snowy Washington, D.C. on the eve of the 1961 inauguration of President John F. Kennedy
Vast Rally in Moscow Is a Challenge to Putin's Power
By ELLEN BARRY and MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ
Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in Moscow for the second time this month, a victory for activists seeking to forge a burst of energy into a lasting force against Vladimir V. Putin.
QUOTATION OF THE DAY
"We will have a difficult year. But it will be an interesting year. It will be our year."
BORIS AKUNIN, a novelist, addressing antigovernment protesters in Moscow.
A: Because Murakami's style is so strongly influenced by his deep knowledge of English, it is naturally easier to translate "back" into English than other writers I have worked on. Soseki also has an English-influenced style, but he also allows his vast knowledge of the Chinese classics to show through.
perfect
telegraphing/ show-through
On a decorative material covering a wall, etc., irregularities, imperfections, or patterns of an inner layer which are transmitted to the surface so that they become visible.
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