Word: polese
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The too close fit between the story and Poland's current convulsions actually presents the film's greatest problem. One has the nagging sense that the image on the screen is Gdansk or Warsaw, retracted by Wajda's lens to look to Paris. And rather than heightening the film's...
The invaders had made a bonfire, enjoyed it for a time, then doused it. A puddle still trickled from the center of the pyre: a transparent spiral of vapor curled out of its flank. The dead books reeked of ruin, flame, animal hides, a fetid steaminess. In the streets creatures...
A picture forms showing 60 years of hectic freedom leading to powerlessness, ennui and immobility. Yet the picture is exaggerated. It is convenient to think of a time in the thrall of science as absent of religious faith, but one look at the millions of Poles, Guatemalans, Irishmen, Americans and...
Poland's break with Russia was the spark. Hungarian students got permission to express sympathy with the Poles by gathering silently before Budapest's Polish embassy. Then the Communist Central Committee canceled the permit. Party Leader Erno Gero wanted no demonstrations. At noon there were angry student meetings...
While the reader (like Wiktor) is suitably impressed by this woman, he may have a hard time finding her a believable character. These are rather extreme statements, and the reader knows nothing of her that would make these statements more characteristic of her than anyone else. Michener tells the reader...