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Word: polisher (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cast rehearsed 12 hours a day throughout spring break, doing acting and singing exercises, working into a unified group of equals with no star and no self-consciousness. Three days in, Len (who played Male One) realized that his Polish-accented English would trip up the show and bowed out. His understudy took over but became embroiled with his other (professional) show and opted out the next week. Guy re-cast the part, but by then the show was one-third blocked, voices were more developed, and more importantly, the cast had become close. The others asked Guy to take...

Author: By Alan Heppel, | Title: Directing Brel: Monomania & Other Virtues | 5/8/1972 | See Source »

...know, you have to realize when you just have to sit back and let it be," Guy had said the night before. But as curtain time approaches for the first of the press previews, he continues to polish the last bit of sparkle into his blue diamond of a show...

Author: By Alan Heppel, | Title: Directing Brel: Monomania & Other Virtues | 5/8/1972 | See Source »

...early-form charts on this election would have placed Basil Quirk, 48, an Irish Catholic longshoreman from South Boston, in the camp of Edmund Muskie, the Polish Catholic from Maine. Or perhaps Hubert Humphrey, who dotes on organized labor. Maybe even George Wallace, the sometime Horatio of the hardhats. Those charts have been proved wrong a number of times. Basil Quirk, boxing fan, father of five, proud owner of a three-decker in one of Boston's most solidly working-class areas, is a firm and enthusiastic-supporter of McGovern. Over a dinner of roast beef, baked potatoes, rolls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: A Boston Longshoreman Explains McGovern | 5/8/1972 | See Source »

...hopes to gather representatives from the 30 countries of Europe, plus the U.S. and Canada in one gigantic conference, to be held most likely in Helsinki. At that time, the Soviets would press for recognition of present borders in Europe. That would legitimize Russia's postwar grab of Polish lands, and Poland's seizure of German lands. It would also enhance the international status of East Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: The View from Moscow | 5/8/1972 | See Source »

Krakowisk Polish Dancers in Concert. Hancock Hall. 8, April...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: dance | 4/27/1972 | See Source »

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