Word: polished
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...very simple story, the most basic of fairy tales," says Sendak, the 74-year-old creator of the picture-book classic Where the Wild Things Are, but it spoke to a "situation that has been part of my flesh and blood and bones my whole life." The son of Polish-immigrant Jews, Sendak had a childhood marred by a "dense, terrible aura" of the Holocaust, as news of perishing loved ones hung over the family home...
Waiting is big in asia at the moment. At poolside lounges, bartenders languidly polish the glasses, ready to mix up a pitcher of Rob Roys if the tourists ever return. At travel agencies and airlines, staff yawn behind idle PCs one week and are ordered to take unpaid leave the next. In homes and offices around Asia, would-be voyagers are wondering when "travel accessories" will once again mean a sun hat and shades, not a face mask and disposable gloves. Some say that's next month, some next year. But until that day, the Asian travel industry is subsisting...
...local paper, an editorial cartoon printed May 15 depicted a grinning Louis Hornstine using the dress of a statue of Justice to polish his shoes...
...DIED. IRENE GUT OPDYKE, 81, Polish-born author whose 1999 memoir, In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer, told how she saved the lives of 12 Jews during World War II by becoming the mistress of a 70-year old German officer; in California. Opdyke-a devout Catholic-later said, "It was a small price to pay." In 1982 she was recognized by the Holocaust memorial in Israel as "Righteous Among the Nations," the highest honor awarded to non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews...
...Swedish pop stars Hanna and Magdalena Graaf, who these days devote themselves to helping street children in India. What awed us most about the night wasn't meeting famous heroes. It was hearing from the unsung heroes about the impact being recognized in TIME has had on their work. Polish homeless advocates Barbara and Tomasz Sadowski told us that TIME's coverage is helping them in their fight to pass a new law designed to create job opportunities for the unemployed and homeless. Yiannis Boutaris, who was Greece's most famous vintner before he devoted himself to animal rights, told...