Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kania has pledged that the reforms made so far, including the creation of independent unions are "irreversible." But how much more ground he can give is questionable, considering the ideological limits imposed by Moscow. Solidarity does not want to embarrass Kania, but it will keep the pressure on neverthless. The workers view their mission as sacred, above the contingencies of party leadership or even Soviet troops. As Walesa eloquently put it at an outdoor rally in Jastrzebie in October: "Do not give in, for once you do give in, you will not rise back for a long time. Indeed...
...feline subtlety of his portrayal of Emperor Joseph II, brother of Marie Antoinette. Here are the mean, mangling whims of absolute power expressed by a man with a tongue of silk and a tone-deaf brain. In some ways, he is Peter Shaffer's most exquisitely precise creation of the evening...
...this kind. I would hope to maintain it and strengthen it." But he has refused to talk about what CIA weak spots he might attack and has not yet read the Reagan transition task force's report that recommends an increase in covert CIA operations and the creation of a central records system shared by the CIA and domestic law-enforcement agencies...
...contrast, Popeye seems to be less an adaptation of Elzie Segar's great creation than of one of those over-Freudianized analyses of popular art that used to appear in the little magazines. Some of the fault may lie in Jules Feiffer's script, which has Popeye searching for his lost father...
Tess seems to be more an act of atonement than of creation, Roman Polanski's way of saying he's sorry for his scandalous reputation and his status as a fugitive from American-or at least Cal-ifornian-justice. He is telling the world that underneath it all, he is really a very serious fellow, if by serious one means that he is as capable as Irving Thalberg or David O. Selznick or any other old time mogul of making a handsomely illustrated version of a literary classic...