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Poles have revolted countless times against their oppressors, only to fail heroically. Almost every generation of Poles for the past century and a half has risen in arms. This penchant for rebellion?evident again in Solidarity?prompted Karl Marx to call Poland the "thermometer of the intensity and vitality of all revolutions since 1789." Successive occupations and uprisings, moreover, gave Poles a deep-rooted mistrust of foreign-imposed governments and sharpened their skills at organizing broad-based conspiracies. It also increased their pride in the past. Many of Solidarity's buttons show the Polish eagle adorned with the crown that...
...irony of Communism's penchant for self-inflicted violence extends in less spectacular but more persistent form to Europe. The only military operations that Soviet forces have actually carried out on the Continent since the Warsaw Pact was formed 26 years ago have been to crush the Hungarian uprising in 1956 and Czechoslovakia's Prague Spring in 1968. Today a considerable portion of Warsaw Pact maneuvers and contingency planning is focused on Poland-the country where the treaty creating the alliance was signed. If Polish troops cannot stabilize the situation, their allies may move in to help. While...
...year of $250,000 and profits before taxes of $100,000, a pulse-quickening return of 40%. Thirty-five million pairs of designer jeans, at prices ranging from $42.50 to $110, will be molded to newly trimmed bodies this year. Beyond labels, the rush to jeans reflects the American penchant for conforming to the image of the body demanded by such clothing. In the mirror, Calvin Klein and Fiorucci simply present what has become America's only authorized posterior...
...busing to achieve desegregation. Even before those rulings were handed down, conservative wrath had been aroused by the federal judiciary's strong protection of the rights of defendants and its uncertain approach to pornography. And conservatives have never been happy about the modern judiciary's penchant for the sort of activism that has prompted some federal judges, like Frank Johnson of Alabama, to take over the administration of prisons or busing programs as a way of guaranteeing constitutional rights. For this reason Sandra Day O'Connor doubtless pleased the New Right when...
...their six-year career on the Cambridge circuit. "We can get away with a lot of stuff here that just wouldn't work anywhere else because of generally limited vocabularies." Aveson says. "Quite true," adds his partner, "This is without a doubt the top of the gutter." Despite a penchant for one-liners and their unusual appearance--Aveson wears most of a tuxedo; Krulick sports dungarees, a baseball shirt, and a cap labeled "Shakespeare"--the duo takes performing seriously. "There are no admissions and no boundaries, so we can be funny and say things that are meaningful too," Aveson notes...