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...essay "A Professional Secret," he battles against language that loses its pictorial power, its signifying power: "Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart; when this happens it can go straight to the cultivated mind, but it bypasses the thereness of things and events." Berger resists polish or slickness in art, even favoring imperfection if it reveals earnestness rather than perfection if it only presents glibness. Events which have been "really painted--so that the pictorial language opens up--[join] the community of everything else that has been painted." This synthesizing totality Berger sees as "the nearest painting...
Paul Tsongas is not a completely changed man, however. There were moments--such as when he coughed directly into the microphone and took excruciatingly long pauses in his speech--when Tsongas seemed to lack the polish of an ordinary presidential candidate...
...play depicts a nouveau-riche family, the Tarletons, who has made its fortune selling underwear. When the Polish aviatrix, Lina Szczepanowska, drops out of the sky and into their home, their apparently banal existence is disrupted. Besides a few tangential plot twists--such as the miscellaneous antics of a son bent on revenge, an oversexed daughter and an amorous Lord--the play is a drawing-room comedy and consists mainly of idle conversation...
...true-blue Cockney. He has the reverence for learning of a man whose own education has been rudimentary, and he gleefully refers to Ibsen, Walt Whitman and Kipling with would be casualty. Unashamedly unfaithful to his wife, he has no qualms about attempting to seduce the dashing Polish aviatrix who has dropped into his greenhouse, and into his "evergreen heart...
...hell-bent entrepreneurs, that just calls for more persistence. When former AT&T sales executive Mary Poldruhi wanted to open a restaurant serving East European fare in Parma, Ohio, a Cleveland suburb, she turned to the telemarketing skills she had acquired at the telephone company. Poldruhi, who is of Polish descent, made cold calls to all the doctors and lawyers listed in the phone book whose surnames ended with such suffixes as -ski and -cz. She raised $240,000. "I would have called every -ski in the U.S. and Poland if I had to," she says. Her new restaurant...