Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Playing the suffering saint can make and shape an actress's career (like Garbo's); it can win fans, raves and Oscars. This year the only sure shots for Best Actress nominations are two more divine masochists in dour year-end movies. Meryl Streep incarnates a tragic Polish heroine in an adaptation of William Styron's bestselling novel Sophie's Choice, and Jessica Lange slips under the fair, glistening skin of '30s Movie Star Frances Farmer in Frances...
...seamless, seductive piece. Sophie's past justifies Streep's familiar mannerisms: the wistful, knowing smile, the nervous fingers burrowing into a copse of hair, the starts and stops of dialogue, even the red blotches on her skin in moments of high tension. She plays Sophie in a Polish-accented contralto and, in the flashbacks, speaks serviceable Polish and German. In a smaller picture, with a lesser actress, this would seem a highfalutin stunt, a meaningless demonstration of dexterity. Here it is one more challenge that this galvanizing actress set for herself, a total immersion in character, a necessary...
President Reagan's swipe at the nuclear-freeze movement is bogus. This group is as much the product of Soviet agents as the Polish Solidarity union is the result of American provocateurs...
Sala, a first-generation Polish American who is a retired carnival and sports concessionaire, lives alone in Apollo Beach, Fla., in an $11,000, 60-ft. mobile home that he purchased with cash. He moved there five years ago, when a boil turned gangrenous, a complication of the diabetic condition that disabled him. Since then, Sala has drawn some $26,000 in Social Security and Medicare payments. He was legally entitled to every cent. Yet, to repay that amount and cover an estimated $14,000 in future benefits, he has willed $40,000 from his estate to revert...
...only one of the four to speak English and to be educated. Nowak stands apart from the rest of the group. Their only link to the outside world while they're in England. Nowak becomes the defacto leader. Throughout the film, the workers speak among themselves in Polish. Skolimkowski has wisely refrained from using subtitles, interpolating instead a spare, running monologue by Nowak. Through this technique, his interior state and isolation become almost palpable...