Word: polished
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...combined all her talents to create a chaotic cornucopia of primary documents, creative narration, lyrical prose, and journalism. The book is told chiefly from the perspective of Antonina Zabinski, who, with her husband Jan, served as the keeper of the Warsaw Zoo under the Nazi regime. The two Polish Christians turned their war-ravaged zoo into a center of resistance against the Nazis and a safe haven for Jewish escapees. The Zabinskis managed to keep their zoo under the guise of running a pig and fur farm to supply German troops, but scores of fugitives from the Warsaw ghetto...
...beside the backstage vaudeville of the catalogue that precedes it. Gone are the living-room fuzz and the steady solitude of a lone acoustic guitar. Gone, too, is the image of a storyteller, suspender-bound, murmuring myths on a sun-drenched porch. In some ways, to bemoan the increased polish of Iron & Wine is to lament the inevitable, as with expanding audiences comes a pull into the wiry world of the studio. Still, selfish as it sounds, there was a soft magic to the lo-fi ambiance of his earliest records, buried now below vocal effects and extended (by Beam...
...local Walgreens and found that 12 contained variable amounts of substances called phthalates (pronounced THAL-ates), a group of chemicals that are used to dissolve and carry fragrances, soften plastics and also as sealants and adhesives. Phthalates are commonly found in a variety of products, including cosmetics, paints, nail polish and children's toys - and have long been at the center of a larger international controversy over their health effects...
Dingman chose to talk about the diversity of students in the incoming class, reciting the poem “Psalm” by Polish Nobel laureate Wislawa Szymborska...
...author, 34, has been sentenced to 25 years in jail for having a role in the murder of a Polish businessman whose body was discovered in the river Oder with a cord binding his hands behind his back that was also looped into a noose around his neck. "The evidence gathered gives sufficient basis to say that Krystian Bala committed the crime of leading the killing," the judge, Lidia Hojenska, told a packed courtroom. She added: "There are certain shared characteristics between the book's narrator and the author...