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...Nowak (Jeremy Irons) is a master electrician from Warsaw, come to London with three laborers to renovate the Kensington home of a wealthy Pole. For a month's hard work the laborers will be paid a year's hard currency. The men will toil in isolation, separated from their families, the outside world and, increasingly, Nowak. He has decided it must be that way: it is December 1981, when, unknown to the three laborers, the Polish government has imposed martial...
...Only Nowak speaks English; only he realizes the pressure that must be exerted to finish the job. And so he drives the laborers beyond their endurance. He steals food, then rations it. He intercepts calls and news from home "for their own good." He quarantines them from entertainment, and even from attending church. It takes no Soviet censor to find a political metaphor here: Nowak is the Polish statesman-Gierek or Kania or Jaruzelski-who must act the ruthless boss to satisfy his own ruthless boss. It is difficult, it is wrong, but it must be done to survive. Thus...
However, Donna Nowak, who is seeking advice from her lawyer about how to file for the bankruptcy of her framing and print shop in nearby Royal Oak, has "mixed feelings" about the President's policy. Says she: "Sometimes I think it's terrible, but other times I think it's doing a lot of good because it's forcing us to take a lot of the fat out of business." Paul Kampka, a mailman in Warren, Mich., reports that the people to whom he delivers letters "are mad, real mad." Then he adds: "Personally, I think...
Bobby Schmautz got the first Boston tally at 7:16, and Hank Nowak brought the Bruins within...
...Frank Nowak, 43, a maintenance man for the local RCA plant, is lucky because his house is still standing. He figures it will take a $22,000 loan to rebuild it the way it was. Thumbing through an album showing the house before the flood, with its trim lawn and clipped rose garden, Nowak says: "If I get this place fixed up and somebody comes knocking on my door to say urban renewal is going to tear it down, there's going to be a fight...