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...President Lech Walesa, who drew 48.2 percent. "The real surprise is that Walesa was able to make this a race at all," TIME's Tadeusz Kucharski reports from Warsaw. "He was trailing badly as recently as six months ago, so his comeback is striking. Kwansniewski's victory shows that Polish people do not want the church interfering in politics. Walesa had the active backing of the Catholic Church and it didn't generate great support for him. Walesa also had the blessing of Solidarity, but Solidarity has very little influence compared to what it had in the first elections...
This "West Side Story" succeeds by concentrating on the particular strengths of the student production; energy, enthusiasm, and good will. These are so evident that the corresponding lapses in polish and perfection are easily forgiven. Even at its weakest moments, this show is winning. At its best, it makes a "West Side Story" that would be enviable be on any stage...
...stark contrast to the polish of Armstrong is Nan Goldin's raw and gritty photographs of friends, family and herself. Together, the photographs form a kind of diary, recording the people and events important to her and preserving the emotional impact of those moments...
...same reluctance that occasionally surfaces in Krohn's performance is evident in Terrio's as well. Although Terrio performs the role of the besieged Teddy with polish, his performance seems to lack the enthusiasm of the rest of the cast. Only occasionally, such as a pantomime scene with Lidia towards the end of the play, does Terrio seem to let his guard down and muck around in the messy freedom of the play; such glimpses of energy leave one wishing he had shown the same throughout the play...
BAILING OUT OF THE WAR EFFORT was not a popular move in 1944; neither was opposing nukes at the height of the cold war in the 1950s and '60s. Popularity evidently wasn't high on Joseph Rotblat's list, though. The Polish-born British physicist was helping the U.S. develop the first A-bomb when he concluded that Nazi Germany was never going to build its own. So he quit his job with the Manhattan Project--the only physicist to do so--believing that only the threat of losing World War II could justify creating so terrible a weapon. Then...