Word: polished
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...some ways, as Storr points out in his richly sympathetic catalog introduction, the artist to whom Westermann was closest in spirit was that exquisitely sophisticated Polish emigre Elie Nadelman, whose delicate, elegantly refined figures inspired by American folk art seem to underwrite many of Westermann's coarser and more colloquial ones in their ecstatically precise finish...
...brushed lines for a dramatic black and white effect that feels right for these urban tales of heroin O.D.s and underground parties that turn into near-orgies. He worked as an apprentice to several industry luminaries like Walt Simonson and has a style that unites personal expression with mainstream polish. In the funniest story, about a feud with a roommate that degenerates into mutual bedlinen soiling, Haspiel leaps over his friend like Superman...
Rogers’ works include, Moving Pictures, a documentary on Polish animator Jan Lenica, Elephants, a look at his own personal family history and Siena, Chronicles of a Medieval Commune...
...woman for 'N Sync tickets. Or playing the silent game, where they book bad guests and let them wallow in dead air. They call it cringe radio, at once punk and frat, like Blink-182 or Fred Durst. It's The Man Show without all that annoying polish. The program has a real garage feeling, with staff members walking in and out of the studio, twisting knobs, grabbing papers. There is no separate producer's booth: Opie twiddles his own knobs...
...time, Szlanta was in charge of restructuring failing companies for the privately owned Polish Bank of Development. On the advice of Szlanta, the bank took over management of Gdynia's shares in 1996. He then used his personal banking connections to obtain desperately needed credits that would help boost the shipyard's output. He put the workers on round-the-clock shifts, which boosted productivity. In 1997 the shipyard was turning a profit of $16 million on $300 million in sales. The next year, net profits nearly doubled, to $30 million. Szlanta is highly motivated to keep the yard...