Word: polisher
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...DIFFICULT to see the Irony in the Polish government's decision last Friday to officially ban the Solidarity Union. After all, since martial law was imposed in December, more than 600 Solidarity officials have been interned and the union's activities suspended. What, you could ask, was there left to outlaw...
...midst of the Great Depression of the 1930s, Charles Revson introduced opaque nail polish and created Revlon Inc. Ever since, the cosmetics industry has been regarded as a good business even for bad times. Women, the theory went, could always be counted on to spend at least some of what little disposable income they had to look attractive and feel good about themselves...
...many Polish guys does it take to make a terrific movie? Four in front of the camera and one behind...
...hard work the laborers will be paid a year's hard currency. The men will toil in isolation, separated from their families, the outside world and, increasingly, Nowak. He has decided it must be that way: it is December 1981, when, unknown to the three laborers, the Polish government has imposed martial...
...drives the laborers beyond their endurance. He steals food, then rations it. He intercepts calls and news from home "for their own good." He quarantines them from entertainment, and even from attending church. It takes no Soviet censor to find a political metaphor here: Nowak is the Polish statesman-Gierek or Kania or Jaruzelski-who must act the ruthless boss to satisfy his own ruthless boss. It is difficult, it is wrong, but it must be done to survive. Thus does the liberal turn totalitarian...