For Weschler, war imitates a movie poster

Over at McSweeney’s, Lawrence Weschler sees echoes of one of the marketing posters for The Pianist in Time magazine’s Beirut cover. He writes: “One might start by wondering whether the Polanski image wasn’t just so powerfully iconic that it all but manhandled the art directors at Time into choosing that Beiruti image over all the others that came across their desk that day for their cover.” Actually, a different poster was more widely used in the U.S.,