Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...telling your. I broke plenty of watches." But gaining experience, she acquired a sense of independence; after she emigrated to the United States, she asserted her independence by marching on picket lines and getting an illegal abortion. Rose Soskin was only 13 when a 35-year-old Polish doctor decided he would marry her. "In the Old Country, when a doctor wants to marry you, you marry." By the times she was 14 she was a mother. But when she got to this country she divorced her husband, remarried, and "started to realize life...
...tinged with the dirty grey of Cleveland's heavily industrialized flats; the Cuyahoga River, which cuts across the district, caught on fire several years ago because it was so heavily polluted with industrial waste. The population of this lower-middle-class urban stretch is predominantly of eastern European ancestry--Polish, German, Czech, Hungarian, plus some Irish and Italians--and roughly 75 per cent Catholic...
...overabundance of Italian surnames in the race. Behind Celebrezze and Russo jogs Michael Climaco, another young city councilman whose big issues are social security rip--offs and reducing U.S. imports. Despite his bias, Nixon is on target when he says, "Climaco has a good deal of polish but he's not big on substance. He gets all kinds of political mileage by wrapping himself in the flag and talking about things everyone has to be concerned about--but getting the facts wrong...
Jerzy Kosinski, Polish-born author (The Painted Bird, Steps, Cockpit) and a frequent guest on Johnny Carson's Tonight show, detects a basic paradox for the novelist and television. "Bear in mind," he says, "that in this country people watch the conversation." To David Halberstam (The Best and the Brightest), spreading the word is like being a political candidate. Says he: "I call it the Nixonization of self. You turn yourself into a human cassette." There is also the nearly hopeless task of trying to explain an idea or complex subject without commercial interruption. South Viet...
...translates as "accidental, fortuitous, incompatible with a cosmos"). Adalberto Vilaseco devotes his career to publishing the same poem under different titles. Forbidden by his religion from drawing likenesses of the world, Artist José Enrique Tafas carefully paints Buenos Aires street sights and then entirely blackens them with shoe polish. His prices vary according to the amount of work that went into the now invisible scenes...