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From the Ted Talk by Françoise Mouly: The stories behind The New Yorker's iconic covers

Unscramble the Blue Letters


So this is the image that we published by Bob Staake right after the election of Barack Obama, and captured a historic moment. But we can't really plan for this, because in order to do this, we have to let the artist experience the eoiotmns that we all feel when that is hpiaenpng. So back in nemovebr 2016, during the election last year, the only image that we could piubslh was this, which was on the stand on the week that everybody voted.

(Laughter)

Because we knew somebody would feel this —

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when the result of the election was announced. And when we found out the result, we really were at a loss, and this is the image that was sent by Bob Staake again, and that really hit a chord. And again, we can't really figure out what's going to come next, but here it felt like we didn't know how to move forward, but we did move forward, and this is the iagme that we published after Donald Trump's election and at the time of the Women's March all over the US.

Open Cloze


So this is the image that we published by Bob Staake right after the election of Barack Obama, and captured a historic moment. But we can't really plan for this, because in order to do this, we have to let the artist experience the ________ that we all feel when that is _________. So back in ________ 2016, during the election last year, the only image that we could _______ was this, which was on the stand on the week that everybody voted.

(Laughter)

Because we knew somebody would feel this —

(________)

when the result of the election was announced. And when we found out the result, we really were at a loss, and this is the image that was sent by Bob Staake again, and that really hit a chord. And again, we can't really figure out what's going to come next, but here it felt like we didn't know how to move forward, but we did move forward, and this is the _____ that we published after Donald Trump's election and at the time of the Women's March all over the US.

Solution


  1. publish
  2. november
  3. image
  4. laughter
  5. emotions
  6. happening

Original Text


So this is the image that we published by Bob Staake right after the election of Barack Obama, and captured a historic moment. But we can't really plan for this, because in order to do this, we have to let the artist experience the emotions that we all feel when that is happening. So back in November 2016, during the election last year, the only image that we could publish was this, which was on the stand on the week that everybody voted.

(Laughter)

Because we knew somebody would feel this —

(Laughter)

when the result of the election was announced. And when we found out the result, we really were at a loss, and this is the image that was sent by Bob Staake again, and that really hit a chord. And again, we can't really figure out what's going to come next, but here it felt like we didn't know how to move forward, but we did move forward, and this is the image that we published after Donald Trump's election and at the time of the Women's March all over the US.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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rea irvin 2
eustace tilley 2
bob staake 2


Important Words


  1. announced
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  3. barack
  4. bob
  5. captured
  6. chord
  7. donald
  8. election
  9. emotions
  10. experience
  11. feel
  12. felt
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  14. happening
  15. historic
  16. hit
  17. image
  18. knew
  19. laughter
  20. loss
  21. march
  22. moment
  23. move
  24. november
  25. obama
  26. order
  27. plan
  28. publish
  29. published
  30. result
  31. staake
  32. stand
  33. time
  34. voted
  35. week
  36. year