Word: polisher
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...usually reading three or four books at a time. I’m reading a Polish poet, Czeslaw Milosz, whose collected poems have just come out. Like everybody else, I’m reading a lot of newspapers and magazines about these events...
...main failing of the show—and it is a big one—is casting. In the rotation of parts, Sept. 25 featured few principal dancers in the showcase roles of the evening, and the lack of quality and polish were very apparent...
...reconstructed by Gregor Schneider that caused either great claustrophobia or great praise, and the Canadian pavilion (George Bures Miller and Janet Cardiff), which took science fiction film making to the next level by using all five senses to play with the viewer’s sense of perception. The Polish pavilion (Leon Tarasewicz) won the cheap thrill award, by creating an easy optical illusion with their floor. (Ridges cut into the floor and painted orange on one side and blue on the other caused the floor to miraculously change colors depending on your position.) The Switzerland pavilion showed the work...
...Petit Prince $27.50 Lemony and clean in a furniture-polish sort...
...book opens with a detailed account of a typical first inning for the Stars, including three full pages on the at-bat of Moyshe, Noah's younger brother, who uses shoe polish to fake a beard. Panel after panel has him fouling away pitches, waiting for the right one, creating a metronomic visual rhythm as the tension builds. Sturm has figured out that a large part of baseball's appeal lies in its structure of little dramas making up the larger one, and he carries this through the entire book...