Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Adds TIME'S Aikman: "In Rumania, senior officials have their own villas and even relatively low party functionaries drive automobiles and receive a generous gasoline allowance. The son of Communist Party Boss Nicolae Ceau?escu races around Bucharest in a sleek Mercedes sports coupé. The perks for the Polish elite include special schools for their children and access to luxurious vacation camps and ski resorts. Traffic literally stops for East Germany's new class; at the approach of the imported Volvo limousines carrying the party's top brass, police halt all other movement on the streets...
...Polish up on your Bibles if you're in the mood for an interesting and wellacted new play, Beginner's Luck, now playing at Reality Theatre in Boston, tonight through Saturday at 8. The play, based on the Biblical tale of power rivalry between King Saul and the shepherd boy David (of Goliath fame), suffers from occasional cloying sweetness and the overuse of improvisational techniques, such as sing-alongs and audience participation, but overall it is moving and provocative...
Economics Department Lecture: Ptodtaka Takeuchi, Professor, Harvard Business School, presents case discussion and lecture on "Butcher Polish." Lecture Room, Margaret Clapp Library...
Everything of importance in Company emanates from the score, a barrage of acid gripes, ironic laments and anxious yearnings set to and in between the noisy rattles of urban chaos. Sondheim can pack a stanza with so much cynicism that beyond the wit and polish of the lyrics it becomes almost a cry of pain...
...good news: he's terrific. What it is about Olivier that makes him the least boring actor in the world? He has the courage and audacity to go a step beyond what you'd expect, or even desire of him, to keep pressing until something detonates, and to combine polish and technique with an edge that makes everything seem electrifyingly spontaneous. As the 85-year-old man who dreams of building the supercar that every American can own, Olivier takes the word "feisty" to new heights, and if it weren't so demeaning to see him play a variation...