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thursday, july 1, 2010
MOVIE REVIEW A lightweight
TELEVISION
‘Airbender’ Woefully bad acting trips up the M. Night Shyamalan fantasy flick “The Last Airbender.” C10
What next for King show? Can Larry King’s chat format survive in a world of heavily partisan media? C6
FOLKLIFE FESTIVAL
On the Mall today From Mexico to the Pacific: Today’s schedule. C10
Style ABCDE C S THEATER REVIEW “ 1
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Hidden in plain sight
NOW YOU SEE IT: Steganography expert Gary C. Kessler took a picture of a lined butterflyfish. Then, using standard, publicly available steganography software, he embedded within the image of the fish a map image of Burlington (Vt.) International Airport. It is impossible for the naked eye to detect that the image of the fish was tampered with.
Anna Chapman could have warmed up even the most frigid Cold War night
by Monica Hesse
There were 11 alleged Russian agents arrested this week, under accusations that they’d been living as Americans while reporting back to the mother coun- try.
But mostly we care about the hot one. Ever since photos of Anna Chapman began circulating online late Tuesday, the Internet at large has been foaming, frothing, fanatic for details about the re- ported 28-year-old secret agent/Maxim model look-alike who specialized in sul- try-eyed, pouty-lipped, come-hither stares. Da, da, da! News sites immediately uploaded pho- to galleries. Someone said “Bond Girl” and we all immediately began casting
chapman continued on C4
Arrests of alleged spies highlight an obscure but long-used technique
by David Montgomery A year ago in April, the government
says, the accused operative known as Richard Murphy and his supposed wife, “Cynthia Murphy,” booted up a computer in their comfy suburban Montclair, N.J., home. They visited a publicly available Web site and clicked on a picture. It looked innocent enough. It could have been a bunny rabbit, say, or a sunset. Any- thing at all.
Applying special software, the govern- ment says, they coaxed words from the innocuous imagery, a text file. Moscow was calling. A secret meeting in a subur- ban New York train station was pro- posed:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BOND-ESQUE BEAUTY: “She’s very charming, attractive, very smart,” says one associate of Chapman’s.
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WASHINGTON POST PHOTO ILLUSTRATION; PHOTOS COURTESY OF GARY C. KESSLER
Does anyone assume the posture of immovable
maverick more persuasively
than Al Pacino?” — Peter Marks, in his review of “The Merchant of Venice” in New York. C5
3LIVE TODAY @
washingtonpost.com/discussions The Going Out Gurus help you plan 1 p.m. • Celebritology with Liz Kelly and Jen Chaney 2 p.m. • Summer movie trivia quiz 3 p.m. Merwin named poet 0
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laureate After 60-plus years thriving in quietude, writer in Hawaii to be poetry’s ambassador
by Philip Kennicott
W.S. Merwin, one of this country’s most distinguished, decorated and pro- ductive poets, has been named the 17th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry of the United States. The position, created under a new name in 1985, is mostly honorary and awarded by the Library of Congress to recognize poetic merit. Poet laureates generally serve from one to two years, ap- pear occasionally at the library’s literary events, and usually promote the role and importance of poetry in American cul- tural life. Merwin, who was born in 1927 and lives in Hawaii, has twice won the Pulit- zer Prize, most recently in 2009 for his collection “The Shadow of Sirius.” Over a 60-year career, he has consistently ex- plored the usual poetic themes — man’s relation to the natural world, memory and the mix of resignation and wisdom that makes life bearable. But he has done so with uncommon rigor, clarity, ecstatic vision and depth. Merwin’s poetry makes powerful con-
nections between the sense of self, the elusive transparency of the present mo- ment, the natural world and the numi- nous beyond. In a 1967 poem, he de- scribed what he called the “anniversary of my death.” “Every year without knowing it I have passed the day / When the last fires will wave to me / And the silence will set out / Tireless traveler,” he wrote, in the unpunctuated form that has defined his style. “Then I will no longer / Find myself in life as in a strange garment...” “William Merwin is universally re- garded as a premier figure in the literary world,” Librarian of Congress James Bil- lington said in a statement. “His poems are often profound and, at the same time, accessible to a vast audience.” The Li- brarian of Congress selects the poet lau- reate. Previous writers to hold the title include Robert Penn Warren, Richard Wilbur, Rita Dove, Joseph Brodsky, Rob- ert Pinsky and, most recently, Kay Ryan. “I am very happy to do it at a time when there is someone that I respect so much in the White House,” Merwin said from Hawaii, where he has lived since 1976. “One always hopes that one is going to draw more attention to poetry and get more people to pay attention to it,” he said, but added, “I am not primarily a
poet continued on C3
The darker world of comics
BOOK WORLD: A winningly grim look at life’s passages. Page C3
WONDER WOMAN: So long, Americana. Hello, contemporary sleek. Page C3
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