Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...small parts; John Campbell Butman and Maureen Kerrigan as Riff and Anita are fine in large ones. Butman also manages to keep his New York accent comparatively intact and reasonably authentic throughout -- which is rare, although, nobody else quite equals Richard Pimes, who evidently conceives of Doc as a Polish Jew, or possibly anyone else, talk...
...could be overcome before the deadline. Even so, the task of supervising the cease-fire accord was proving almost impossible. South Vietnamese and U.S. officials strongly protested to the International Control Commission that two South Vietnamese bases north of Saigon were being besieged by North Vietnamese regiments. But the Polish and Hungarian members of the commission refused to investigate, arguing that they might get hurt in the battle. The Saigon government was obliged to send a 1,000-man task force to relieve the troops at Rach Bap. The second base, Tong Le Chan, remained surrounded...
...1940s, Mila Brener and Ya'acov Meridor would have seemed the least likely candidates imaginable for the job of rescuing the sinking British shipbuilding industry. Both men were then Zionists fighting British forces in Palestine-the Russian-born Brener as skipper of a blockade-busting refugee ship, the Polish-born Meridor as deputy commander of the bomb-wielding Irgun underground and sometime inmate of British prison camps in Kenya and Eritrea. But last week, Brener and Meridor's little-known Haifa-based firm, Maritime Fruit Carriers, completed placement of roughly $700 million in orders and options...
...Long Goodbye if you have fond and entrenched memories of the Raymond Chandler crime novel. Director Robert Altman has thrown out three-quarters of Chandler's plot, as well as detective Philip Marlowe's hard-boiled mystique--his pithy talk and polish, and his Sir Galahad morality. Altman's film is basically a wallow in the atmosphere of Los Angeles today. Altman's virtues are a good eye and some talent with actors, as well as a healthy distaste for the Hollywood culture which surrounds him. But his flaws are fatal: he doesn't know what makes a plot hold...
Died. Paul Kletzki, 72, Polish-born violinist and conductor, music director of the Dallas Symphony (1958-61) and Geneva's I'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (1967-70); after collapsing while conducting a rehearsal of the Liverpool Philharmonic; in Liverpool, England...