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Walesa did not personally launch this revolution like some latter-day Spartacus. The strikes themselves made him a leader, just as the country's catastrophic economic condition had engendered the protest. Standing only 5 ft. 7 in., with a drooping reddish-brown mustache and an impish twinkle in his eye, Walesa, 37, speaks the simple, sometimes ungrammatical language of the Polish worker. His education was limited to high school level vocational training; his leadership abilities were honed during years of underground labor organizing-activities that eventually cost him three jobs and landed him in jail on several occasions...
...were to apply the Big Bang theory to art, the explosion could be said to have occurred during World Wars I and II. Avant-gardism-aggressive, impish, savage and wildly varied-still resounds throughout European and American culture. Jean-Luc Daval's Avant-Garde Art 1914-1939, (Skira-Rizzoli; 223 pages; $85) is a sequel to the author's Modern Art 1884-1914: The Decisive Years. The new work's 75 color reproductions and 270 black-and-white pictures have been chosen to illustrate Daval's brisk chronological text. By dividing his subject into 89 bite...
...Hobo makes Cocky realize that he's missing out on life's beauty and that to win freedom he must beat Sir at his own game. Suddenly, he becomes as fierce and determined as Sir and, once he wins over his master's protege (Alison Carey in a wonderfully impish performance) and proclaims his independence, Sir is left flab-bergasted with nothing but his empty rhetoric on manners and tradition. Though proud, the revitalized Cocky is not heartless. He dreams of "a new beginning, a new game of new hope, fellowship and understanding." O, Noble Proletariat...
...Turn confirms what Starting Over suggested: that Jill Clayburgh is Hollywood's most adorable klutz. Her skinny limbs jut out at odd angles, like folding yardsticks. Her face seems the work of an impish sculptor who added an Emmett Kelly nose to those handsome features. Her hair has declared war on itself. She hunches over her food as if protecting it from invaders, and swallows champagne in one gulp, as if it had an egg in it. She moves like an awkward little girl who in her mid-30s is still Daddy's favorite. She is very dear...
MARRIED. Malcolm McDowell, 37, impish English actor (A Clockwork Orange, Caligula); and American Actress Mary Steenburgen, 27 (Goin' South); he for the second time, she for the first; in New York City. The couple met two years ago while playing strangers who fall in love in the film Time After Time...