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Usually the Vatican's gilded Hall of the Consistory is reserved for sacred rites. This time, however, a flock of first-nighters led by Pope John Paul II himself, in a front-row-center armchair, filled the hall for a special performance of Polish Playwright Andrzej Jawien's allegory, The Goldsmith's Shop. The play, about three married couples with differing problems and a goldsmith who represents God, drew a chorus of clerical bravos, which was no surprise. Jawien was the nom de plume under which John Paul, then Polish Bishop Karol Wojtyla, wrote the play...
...long life and may you see the sons of your sons," prayed the Pope in nuptial blessing. Later in the week, the Pope tuned in the state-owned second radio network to catch the premiere broadcast of The Goldsmith's Shop, a play in verse by Polish Dramatist Andrzej Jawien. That, it turned out, was the nom de plume John Paul had chosen in 1960, when as auxiliary bishop of Cracow he wrote the heavily symbolic study of three marriages...
...sooner, as conceived by two bright New York architects, Charles Gallichio II and Jan Andrzej Dabrowski. Their dream airport is merely one of the more imaginative of a number of new proposals for airports located at sea or in other large bodies of water. There is nothing dreamy about the impetus be hind the proposals. Land-based airports are already jammed with traffic, and real estate for new ones is scarce and expensive. Even when sufficient open space can be found, local citizens are sure to mount powerful objections to the noise, danger and air pollution of a major modern...
Ashes and Diamonds--Andrzej Wajda's fine film about life and death in postwar Poland. At the BRATTLE...
...sadly noted the decline in the "quality of indignant statements." If enough such statements "come pouring out after someone is shot or blown up," he wrote, "it is almost as good as solving the crime." When a Polish alder man proposed renaming an expressway after the Polish General Tadeusz Andrzej Bonawentura Kosciuszko, Royko explained why the idea would never work. "In fact, 98% of all policemen cannot spell it, so it would be impossible for anyone to get a ticket...