Word: polished
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Preparation begins long before the boys leave for the Matrix, the downtown Boston club where the magic will happen. At 7 p.m., Flynn, Lannon, Welch and Melvin struggle to polish themselves up for the night amidst a choir of cell phone calls from friends acting as ticket-selling “foot soldiers...
...education is that of an electrician. And then he formed the union…and then was pulled into the government,” Kubik says. “During his presidency the complaint of a lot of Polish people was that his speeches were a little less than eloquent. When he was addressing the UN and the president of the United States, Polish people would be watching TV like, ‘Oh My God! What are you saying!’ Because a lot of his colloquialisms are, well, I hate to break Poland down into classes...
Dressed in a black button down and khakis, Kubik, who speaks without a trace of a Polish accent—though with a hint of Addison, Illinois, the suburb of Chicago where he now lives—addressed the audience in English and Walesa in Polish, asking him about coal mines in the country. The mines’ workers, finding themselves out of work and now faced with a supply-and-demand economy and not all that much demand, have attacked the economic policies of the current government...
...basement, where he and his parents lived for three years after emigrating) has seen Walesa before. About five years ago, Walesa spoke in Chicago, though in a setting very different from the IOP forum. He spoke then without a translator, addressing a crowd of locals gathered in the neighborhood Polish Catholic Church. (“Chicago has as many Polish people as Warsaw, I think,” Kubik says. He’s almost right: Warsaw has a population of about 1.6 million and Illinois a Polish population of about...
...interesting to see him in the elevated context,” Kubik says. “It wasn’t necessarily a bad thing to see him here but it was weird to see him…because it was sort of different from the general Polish ideal...