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...Never 'talk down' to any group or individual or engage in the use of derogatory terms such as nigger, boy, spic, wop, kike, chink, shine, burrhead, dago, polack, bohunk and the like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Criminal Justice: Progress in Chicago | 5/20/1966 | See Source »

...masquerade. De Vries stands appalled at the equations of life, and cracks tragic jokes about it. The stuff of Let Me Count the Ways would be funny if De Vries' characters didn't bleed. Is it comedy or tragedy, for instance, when Stanley Waltz, the Polack piano mover in this slice of Midwestern life, ruptures himself trying to haul his piano-sized paramour into the bedroom? Is it really hilarious that Stanley spends night after night in his own yard watching his own wife undress, and must then justify this irrational behavior to the police? And when another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Laugh When It Hurts | 7/23/1965 | See Source »

...Brynner, for instance, looks just right for his role as a crewman on a search plane-after all, he has a built-in radome-but it's hard to put much stock in the character he portrays: a Japanese Polack with a Russian accent and an Arab girl friend (Daniela Gaubert). As for Richard Widmark and George Chakiris, they manipulate their seaplane like a couple of toddlers playing oogah in the old man's crate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Three Rescueteers | 5/8/1964 | See Source »

...Polack contended that the City of Cambridge is remiss in not printing the instructions governing the use of the meters on the meters themselves. He then produced a copy of the law involved in the case...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law Student Says Meters Are Illegal | 12/20/1949 | See Source »

Playing her old part of Kitty, the prostitute who is living in a dream world, Julie Haydon never misses. Always, she is just right--the Polack accent, the way Kitty walks--a fine actress, completely immersed in her role. James Dunn plays Joe, the man who interprets the world from the vantage point of a side table in Nick's Pacific Street Saloon, Restaurant and Entertainment Palace. Dunn is a sentimental Irishman, and this is a play by a sentimental Armenian, which is enough said. Dunn muffed some of his lines badly last night, demonstrating that he hasn't been...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 8/13/1946 | See Source »

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