Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Made in Denmark by a Polish director, The First Circle was shot in some approximation of English, then redubbed. The actors exercise their mouths a great deal, trying to shape uncomfortable syllables. Meanwhile, the voices droning smoothly on the sound track have the faintly patronizing, disengaged sound of a troupe from some failed regional theater making an unpleasant living on a soap opera...
Rare Pleasures. So do Zakopane bankrolls. Prosperity has enabled many families to buy new Polish-made Fiats and even to visit relatives in the U.S. -rare pleasures in a country where the average annual income is $1,380. Bureaucrats are offered-and often accept -bribes for authorizing private use of scarce, rationed building materials, signing building permits, or simply not noticing the existence of brand-new villas in the countryside. As the national daily Zycie Literackie put it: "There was a saying in the town that an official arrives with a briefcase, and after two years...
...flops on the floor and creeps back into the opposite corner. It is articulately made but looks stumbling and impoverished, like a Beckett tramp. It still seems daring, but was vastly more so six years ago, when Minimalism still imposed its demands of geometry, scalelessness and high industrial polish on most new American sculpture...
...effect is sometimes a calumny, as when a Rolf Hochhuth claimed in Soldiers that Churchill engineered the murder of the head of the Polish government in exile. More often, it is stultifyingly frivolous and sentimental. The afterimage of a Victoria Regina or an Abe Lincoln in Illinois consists mostly of the unsettling idea that Queen Victoria was really Helen Hayes and the Great Emancipator was really Ray mond Massey. If anyone manages to remember The Last of Mrs. Lincoln, it will be with the conviction that Mary Todd Lincoln was really Julie Harris...
...city's southwest side, the residents of the neat one-story bungalows that crowd the area long ago learned how to read modulations in the engine noises of approaching aircraft. One afternoon last week, as they waited for their children to return home from school, the largely Polish, Lithuanian and Italian inhabitants of the Chicago Lawn area heard a sound they instantly mistrusted. Recalled Mrs. Pat Kjos: "I was in the basement, and I heard a plane go over. I just knew it was in trouble. It was much too loud. Then all of a sudden the whole house...