Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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NONE of Prascak's productions have been marvels of polish--their appeal has had to do mostly with manic humor and risk-taking. In Orphee, the small stage in the Kronauer Space not only limits the action, it also limits the actors. On opening night, at least, the players showed some awkwardness maneuvering around the table and chairs. It didn't help the smooth flow of the show that guardian angel Carleton, due to unfortunate (and bizarre) circumstances, had to hop about in a cast. The handicap did, however, contribute to the dramatic tension--will...
...inspired pairing, St. Louis assigned Stan Musial and Moe Drabowsky last week to throw out a first ball at the World Series, something to do with their being Polish. Musial was and is a natural. When Missouri first heard that a Polish Cardinal had been elected Pope, most folks presumed it was Stan. But the selection of Drabowsky showed an instinct befitting the best baseball town in America, an affection for October strangers...
...point of apoplexy. Episode II, in which our hero goes nuts in the tropics, battles with spotted fluorescent snakes but does find El Dorado, opens with a group of eccentrically geometrical wall reliefs done in 1971-73. They were inspired by photos of the wooden architecture of Polish village synagogues obliterated in World War II. They were essentially constructivist, based on the relation of parts rather than (as in his earlier work) the repetition of units. They looked complex, clean and rather dull, and one could not have deduced from them the stylistic convulsion Stella was readying...
Like Communist rulers elsewhere, Polish officials have not been eager to submit their decisions to a vote of the people. But to win public support for a sweeping economic-reform package, Warsaw announced last week that it will put the measures to a referendum in late November. The plebiscite will be the first since the late 1940s...
...evidence indicates a considerable potential for a fiction of arrested development. Says Thomas Bender, head of the history department of New York University and author of the recent cultural history New York Intellect: "If the world is willing to pay you fortunes for anything you write, why try to polish your work?" Especially, it might be added, if there is an entire industry eager to polish your image...