Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...phone-in gimmick caught consumers by surprise, the price hikes did not. They were part of a series of painful economic measures announced in February 1982. Since then, Poland's foreign debt has remained at $26 billion, while the economy as a whole has stagnated. The Polish standard of living, many economists agree, has dropped by about 25%. Poles were particularly outraged by the government's announcement that butter would be rationed. The move came barely a month after officials had given public assurances that no such plan was being considered. Thousands of housewives quickly stormed shops...
...same time the government was struggling with the food-price problem, it was trying to raise money for a new hospital in Lodz to be named in honor of the nation's mothers. The latest Polish joke: the hospital will be filled with housewives exhausted from waiting in food lines...
...religion. Israelis are different from Jews in the rest of the world, he argues. The Diaspora is the "museum civilization." If any spiritual existence remains at all, he says, it has degenerated into the interpretation of the meaning of the interpretations, "until finally all that is left is to polish the artifacts in their cases." Not so for Israelis who have the legacy of Zionism. Now that too is becoming a "museum piece." The kibbutzim--the fertile land where desert once was--and the passionate spirit which has characterized the Israeli existence are all creatures of "this new, nonreligious Judaism...
...account given by Nikolai Vasilyev, minister of land reclamation and water resources, the mishap occurred in September, when a 45-ft. by 80-ft. breach opened in a large earthen dam at a fertilizer plant in Stebnik, four miles southeast of the city of Drogobych, near the Polish and Czechoslovak borders. The break allowed a 20-ft.-high torrent of concentrated salty wastes from the plant to cascade down hillsides, sweeping away railroad tracks, ripping up roads, ruining farmlands, and smashing homes and workshops until it reached the Dniester River 15 miles away...
This French-West German co-production was filmed in English in 1981 by a Polish emigre and stars an Australian (Sam Neill), a German (Heinz Bennent) and a French-German-Algerian-Turk (Isabelle Adjani). Alienation is, not surprisingly, all. Adjani bickers endlessly with Husband Neill, flirts with the mysterious Bennent, and wanders the deserted streets under a sky clouded with portents of apocalypse. One day, in a creepy subterranean walkway, she is seized by violent cramps, writhes about and delivers a glutinous hunk of protoplasm...