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...purveyors of Polish sausages provide a crucial service to the spectators at the Head of the Charles Regatta and they work hard...
That hard line showed up first in the form of a Yeltsin flip-flop on the notion of an expanded NATO. During an August visit to Warsaw, he had declared that Polish membership in the alliance "would not be counter to Russian interests." That was taken as a green light for drawing much of the old East bloc into the alliance, and Western policy planners immediately went to work on mechanisms for membership. First to join would be the so-called Visegrad countries -- Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary -- probably by the end of the '90s. Then might come...
...acting by all of the major characters in the film is superb. James Mason in the lead role provides a masterful portrayal of polish and perversion. As Lolita, Shelley Winters revels in the role of the clever, assertive and pouty nymphet. Sue Lyons' Charlotte Haze oozes visceral detestability to the point where the viewer empathizes with Humbert's disgust...
That was the strategy used by the American and the French groups, as well as by Paczynski and several Polish astronomers. Scanning the stars was only the beginning; the astronomers then had to put thousands of megabytes of data from their telescopes through a computer. The computer's job was to identify the unusual flickers of light caused by MACHOs amid the flashes from thousands of naturally pulsating stars that regularly switch from dim to bright and back again. After nearly 2 million individual observations that yielded just one dubious MACHO, Griest's group was ready to give up. Then...
...classical division, has been Henryk Gorecki's 1976 Symphony No. 3, the "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs" -- a transcendentally dour, radiantly miserable minimalist cogitation on suffering and death for soprano and orchestra. Boosted by savvy marketing and extensive airplay, an Elektra Nonesuch recording of the symphony transformed an obscure Polish composer into a grand master...