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Verdi: Rigoletto (Deutsche Grammophon, 3 LPs). In his first opera recording in a decade, Carlo Maria Giulini leads a performance that is a meditation on Verdi's musical drama...
...machinist at the Ursus tractor factory, twelve miles outside Warsaw. Although both have joined Solidarity, they could not be regarded as dissidents or malcontents. Says Krzysztof: "One shouldn't complain too much. I enjoy my work." Maria points out that a decade ago they were far worse off, living in a single attic room that they had obtained only by agreeing to care for their elderly landlady. Since then, Maria has gone to work to supplement the family income, which now totals 15,000 zloty a month ($500). The factory helped them get a three-room apartment on Ursus...
...hearty breakfast each day (fruit juice, soup or goulash, sausage, bread, coffee, tea or milk), and gives them coupons redeemable at the factory for 3.2 lbs. of meat per worker each month for about two-thirds of what it costs, when available, at the butcher shops. But when Maria gets off work after an eight-hour day finishing steel tractor parts, she must stand in the interminable queues at the neighborhood supermarket. Half an hour alone is wasted waiting in line for the obligatory shopping basket she must use for purchases. Always poorly stocked, the supermarket has been virtually stripped...
...Karasiewiczes' daughter Bozena speaks English and some Russian; she aspires to become a tourist guide after graduating from a business college that specializes in hotel management. Says Maria: "We hope our daughter will have a better life, because she's educated-not just a worker like us." Bozena, who has a steady boyfriend, may be in line for an apartment of her own. Her parents put her on the waiting list of the municipal housing authority when she was eleven, hoping that she would get an apartment when she turned...
When the Karasiewiczes were asked what they desired the most, Krzysztof replied: "I hope things will be better; we would like to live in peace, without lines at the stores, and with more free time." Said Maria: "I want butter, and meat -not a fur coat...