Word: polish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hospice charges no fees, and only one-third of the (pounds)3 million (roughly $5 million) annual budget comes from the government-run National Health Service. Once a world traveler, she now stays close to home so that she can minister to her ailing 87-year-old husband, Polish Artist Marian Bohusz-Szyszko. She has always studiously avoided the spotlight cast on her more famous contemporary, Elisabeth Kubler- Ross, the author of On Death and Dying. "I am not a cult figure," she once angrily told an adoring American...
Kampot's Revolutionary Hospital, filled with victims of the war, offers ample evidence of the need for peace. A small Polish surgical team has saved many lives, but the wards remain crowded with soldiers and civilians who stepped on mines laid by the Khmer Rouge and others during the war. "What kind of life do I lead now?" asks Nget Run, 20, who lost a leg while gathering firewood...
Actors and drama coaches employ a variety of techniques to help attorneys polish their acts. The point is not to have the barristers chewing the scenery but to help them get their points across. "If a lawyer overplays and comes across as an actor," notes Coughlan, "then credibility is lost." Some instructors have students practice with real material. Lawyers may, for instance, replay cases that have already gone through the courts, using actors and actresses in the parts of judge, jury and witnesses. Some hire actor- jurors to help them try out strategies for upcoming cases...
...International Festival held in Brockton this weekend features Spanish Paella, Portuguese delicacies and capucha from Cape Verde. The Middle Eastern belly dancer Talila will perform also, with the Krakowiak Polish dancers and the Portuguese Folkloric group. Admission is free. Call 508-580-7597 for details...
...River Rats as his clientele. But Frank's isn't likely to lure too many Harvard students away from House grilles as long as it closes at 11 p.m., serves even its Basic Dogs for as much as $2.25 and fails to diversify its menu beyond wieners to include Polish sausage and cheeseburgers (which it is supposed to do shortly...