Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thing for the Supreme Court to state that Polish jokes constitute an insufficient "public controversy" to apply the "fairness doctrine...
...dead." Thereafter, as Bernstein puts it, "Redford got on the script in a concentrated way." He squeezed a couple more revisions out of the miffed Goldman, who was eager to get on with adapting his Marathon Man novel for the screen. Yet another writer was brought in for a polish job, though the script remained a problem. A lot of what is on the screen now was finally improvised by the actors and Director Alan Pakula on the set?with Redford calling Washington five or six times a day, according to colleagues, to check these changes for accuracy with...
...some loss. But with a Japanese sword, appreciation is more difficult. The visual subtleties of a great blade are taxing. No gaze through a glass case can substitute for the experience of holding and turning it under natural light, observing the grain of the steel surface, the contrasts of polish, the relentlessly delicate curves of ridge and back, and the hamon or temper pattern-hard as diamonds and impalpable as blown frost-along its cutting edge...
...faster, he is deceptively low-keyed at factory gates and bowling alleys: "Need your vote. Don't forget." He is working hard to slice off some of Chicago's ethnic vote, which is usually safe for Daley's candidate. Walker charges that no member of the Polish community has been picked for any county office by the machine this year. To cheers, he announces: "I'm tired of Polish jokes...
...complain that some Germans had been protecting Jews in defense enterprises. But not so Speer. Turning to Speer, who was sitting in the audience, Himmler addressed him directly, lauding him as a man on whom one can rely to aid in the "cleansing" of the last remnants of Polish Jewry. Here are Himmler's words spoken directly to Speer...