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Signs of repression are everywhere. Personal letters arrive bearing the censor's purple stamp. Telephone callers hear a voice repeating "Rozmowa kontrolowana, "meaning their conversation is being monitored. Major intersections are blocked by military checkpoints. Summary trials continue for workers accused of organizing strikes in defiance of martial law. Some of them have already received jail terms of up to seven years, although five were acquitted after their own factory managers and foremen refuted the prosecutor's charges. Meanwhile, a systematic campaign is under way to discredit intellectuals who supported Solidarity...
Indeed, perhaps the greatest accomplishment of Solidarity and Walesa was that they made it possible for Poles once again to speak their minds. In Solidarity bulletins and hundreds of newly established independent newspapers, articles regularly appeared that would shock the most tolerant censor in any other East bloc country. Solidarity's national weekly Solidarnosc, for example, last month ran a blistering two-part expose on the privileges of top Communist officials. In student clubs, journalists' groups and literary unions, there were open discussions of topics that had been forbidden in the universities, such as Poland's history between the world...
...drunk once, and then I will have a hangover, so I will say, "Ah, come on, I am not going to do that again." Or you might love three or four women at the same time, but is that good? No. This is the way you have to censor yourself and make choices that bring you the most happiness. You can always find things to be happy about. I try to be satisfied with everything, and I have reached the conclusion that leadership is not the source of satisfaction. You lose too much of your health and have too much...
This time Matthau is a career assassin, eradicating Mob stool pigeons with the weary professionalism of a top C.P.A., and Lemmon, a network censor and a jilted husband poised to end his misery in suicide. They meet on their mutual missions, in a hotel room. For Matthau it is loathe at first sight; for Lemmon it is a last grab at camaraderie before lights out. See how they run on the treadmill of French farce, tripping over each other's discomfort, overdosing on the crudest twists of plot...
Even the theater reviews meant something. This is how Emily Heinzberger wrote about Hair: "'City censor' Richard Sinnott, actually the head of Boston's licensing division, publicly denounced the show after seeing a preview performance. Un-American, he calls it. Sheeeeeet, man, Nothing at $10 a seat can ever be called un-American...