Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...least partly correct in charging that suspects are sometimes released too readily; one man had to be arrested for burglary three times in four days before bail was set high enough to take him out of circulation. Some of the judges-like low-level jurists elsewhere-lack judicial polish and expertise. But the court has at least climbed out of the cesspool...
Ayrton regrets the lack of time, and also the lack of professional polish. But for him, that's a perennial problem...
What gives the evening a high polish is the cast. Anne Baxter plays the Italian princess and the former mistress with a likable and knowing broadness. Hume Cronyn's cigar-smoking millionaire sounds a bit too much like George Burns, but his Hugo is a masterpiece of foxy pomposity. Best of all is Jessica Tandy, first as the harridan in Maud and then as the great man's dry, abused wife. She endows the woman with an odd gallantry that Coward himself may have possessed...
...AFTERNOON Kenny took me with him down to Sopotnick's, a Polish establishment on Rte. 415 a few miles past Kenny's house. Local boys like Kenny and Rick Stacy and Danny Newton pronounce it "spudnick's." While both young and old like the place now, it used to be a rough spot to crash if you were a longhair, that is, until Kenny and his friends started drinking and playing a little pool there after working on their land. Now the jukebox has a mixture of country and rock music, a lot of it with country roots. Danny takes...
...Brooklyn Academy of Music's ambitious British Theater Season (TIME, Jan. 28) has opened its second series: three plays by the Actors Company. The troupe is a two-year-old touring cooperative with more promise than polish. Its rules are truly democratic: all decisions about repertory and casting are made by vote. Butto keep chaos from the door -the director of each production has the usual artistic control. That divided authority may explain the unevenness of the fare. The blasted heath of King Lear would seem to be a British company's natural territory; instead, Shakespeare provides their...