Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While relatively few cases come to light, such incidents are quite common on both sides. Just how common became clear last month, when the U.S. sharply protested a crude attempt by the KGB to blackmail a Polish-born American diplomat, Constantine Warvariv, 53, using prefabricated evidence of wartime collaboration with the Nazis. Some State Department officials, still furious about the Lusis case, suspect the attempted blackmail of Warvariv was a Soviet retaliation for the schoolboy affair. More likely, the two incidents were unrelated, except as twin pieces of evidence that spooks will be spooks, it seems, regardless of the initials...
...THIRD MOVEMENT was a decided come-down, although that admittedly was largely the composer's fault. It was a rather silly piece of music--all surface, full of melodramatic cadences and changes of tempo. Although both Chan and the orchestra played with firmness and polish, nobody seemed to know what to do with the music--and their hesitance did nothing to make Bruch's bombastic posturing any more convincing...
Though the manifesto did not say so outright, it was clear that its authors considered the Polish Communist Party to be the usurper and the Soviet Union the robber. Demanding the restoration of "sovereignty and democracy," the manifesto called for "freedom of belief, thought, speech, information, assembly and work." It insisted specifically on the right to strike, on free trade unions, abolition of censorship and complete reform of the electoral system...
Such freedoms have often been demanded by dissident Polish intellectuals in statements and open letters. But the Glos manifesto went much further in expressing outright resistance to the authority of the Communist Party itself. It differed in an even more significant way from the human rights appeals that have proliferated in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the past decade. Those appeals criticized Communist regimes for not putting existing laws into practice. The Polish declaration took issue with the laws themselves...
...MAJOR SHORTCOMING keeps the film from being an artistic triumph: Like the initial works of most gifted writers, Pinero's script has the mark of a genuine talent that needs polish. Though the morality parable in the film points to a considerable amount of insight and sensitivity, the motifs are at times carried out in a clumsy fashion. Short Eyes's mea culpa about his perverse affinity for young girls is riddled with cliches, and Davison's acting in the title role approaches the pedestrian throughout the narrative, making the character look like just another wimp with a kinky habit...