Word: polese
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Walesa is trying to win the support of intellectuals, who bristle at his populist style, by meeting with them and urging them to give "a newcomer" a chance. He has even suggested that if elected he will ask Leszek Balcerowicz, the Finance Minister and architect of the austerity measures that...
She has been called the First Lady of Rock, but Lynn Hill wows the crowd with graceful moves instead of music. In fact, her best licks are performed dangling from a 70-ft. sheer limestone cliff. Hill, 29, is the world's best woman rock climber. Her vertical inclination dates...
Ever since the Japanese introduced the kudzu vine to America at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, the broad-leafed creeper has been a much maligned nuisance. Like some omnivorous green space monster, the irrepressible plant has spread across the Southeast, smothering everything from telephone poles to abandoned cars.
INTERROGATION. A Polish woman (Krystyna Janda) is arrested and tortured by the state, then bears her inquisitor's child -- a poignant metaphor for a generation of Poles sired in fear. Ryszard Bugajski's political horror movie, banned for eight years, plays like a suicide note smuggled out of the Gulag...
Outside Harvard Hall, Joanne M. Nelson '93 said the University should provide more racks. Now, she said, she usually must lock her bike to fences or poles because there is no space elsewhere.