Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Warts and All" [Jan. 4] really grabbed me. For over an embarrassing year, my warts were so rampant that I feared a doctor's estimate for removal. However, while preparing for a large party, I polished silver daily for a week, and the silver polish disintegrated the little pests in short order...
...strike and demonstrations when the abrupt resignation of Party Chief Wladyslaw Gomulka persuaded them to wait and see what would happen next. In his anger, Gomulka warned other officials that unless the rioting stopped, he would call upon Soviet troops and tanks to end it. Despite that threat, the Polish high command disobeyed his order that Polish troops fire directly on the rioters (many of the deaths resulted from ricochets...
...meet weekly and make public a resume of their discussions. He has discouraged the adulation normally conferred on a party chief. Though Gomulka's portrait has come down from office walls throughout Poland, the new boss has told aides that they can put up pictures of the Polish eagle or Lenin, but not of Edward Gierek...
...achieve authenticity, he spent six weeks tramping over bleak vistas in Wales and northern England. The cast, fortified by daily rations of vitamin C, slogged through gales, rain, freezing temperatures and even hailstones. Polanski, 37, whose appearance suggests a Polish leprechaun, bounded all over his set, doing a little of everybody's job-digging up a rock, moving a prop, holding a horse. His eye for detail is such that he would interrupt a sword fight sequence to adjust the fold of a cloak, or, if a natural rainstorm did not seem convincing enough, supplement it by hosing...
...country of the mad, the creative loon is king. Around Gabriel cluster amiable freaks, all of whom, like him, define a precarious balance by opposing their craziness to the paranoia of the outside city. There is Walter, an amateur Polish historian, whose East Village flat is filled to the ceiling with grimy bales of newspaper, all destined to be cross-indexed and given to a university in Warsaw; Dulcie Kraft, a Texas scientologist; Beamer, a novelist writing a book about morning sickness, "privately printed and sent only to monasteries"; Orville, a pot dealer and "passing student of Eastern cosmic consciousness...