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...netwomen had entered the doubles competition in front, 4-2, and needed only one victory to polish off the Tigers for a while it seemed as if the number one doubles tandem of sophomore Elizabeth Evans and junior Maria Pe would play the role of match winners, as they turned in a flawless set of tennis, blanking Joy Cummings and Jan Shel burne, 6-0, in the first...
Pacula was tired, and she felt artistically stale. She decided to take a vacation, and she flew to Paris to stay with friends. Two months later she was making plans to return when, on Dec. 13, 1981, the Polish regime declared martial law and shut down the entertainment industry. "My theater was closed," says Pacula, "so I decided to wait in Paris." She called Polish-born Director Roman Polanski, who had seen her naked in the Operetta role. He had been impressed, he said last week: "Not many young actresses are capable of doing that, but Joanna had the looks...
...nothing happens after." Maybe, says this adventurer with a laugh, she won't even be able to leave Finland for Stockholm, where the film's final scenes are to be shot. Someone stole her purse and passport in New York, her temporary papers have expired, and the Polish embassy is not likely to give her another passport. She isn't worried. "I am a tank," she says, looking very untanklike. (The Swedes did, in fact, let her enter the country...
...certainly, she says. There would be no problem at all. But the production of Othello, in which she played Desdemona before she left, still has not been shown on Polish television. Do the authorities resent what she insists is not a defection...
...businessmen, had been protected by armed security guards and videocameras that snapped pictures every ten seconds. Nonetheless, when a customer asked to examine Lot 296 more closely, a startled Sotheby's clerk found in its place a cheaper diamond substitute (value: $10,000), apparently dabbed with pink nail polish...