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...Antigone in New York. , Polish emigre Janusz Glowacki has carved a niche as the U.S. stage's foremost writer on the East European immigrant experience, and he may be the most incisive satirist as well. Washington's Arena Stage impeccably mounted this odd lark, derived from Greek myth, about two derelicts' attempt to bury a fallen comrade -- interspersed with caustic remarks about two soulless worlds: the KGB's Russia and Manhattan...
...Schindler's List An unlikely, enigmatic hero -- a playboy industrialist -- rescues 1,100 Polish Jews from the Holocaust. In retelling this true story, Steven Spielberg's austere but monumental film re-creates, with chilling immediacy, a central horror of 20th century life and death. Epic cinema, tragic drama, it is also an act of remembrance and conscience that ultimately transcends the ordinary critical categories...
...identical twin brother Lech was elected President last week. The brothers, who talk as many as a dozen times a day by phone ("We have the same family. There is much to discuss," joked Lech in an interview with Time before the parliamentary vote), look set to dominate Polish politics for the next five years. The Kaczynskis' appeal is due in large part to their promises to maintain social programs threatened by their rivals in the Civic Platform party. Civic Platform advocated radical free-market reforms to slash the budget deficit and jump-start the economy, but voters shied away...
...fact, his weirdness, although it's of a cool variety. This interview was postponed three days so he could jet to Russia to go to a party with his friend Mikhail Gorbachev, and then an extra two days so he could take a part in a Polish art film. It seems as if his life is in some constant state of artsy flux. He refers to most of his experiences as "a great adventure." He has made more than 200 giant collages--using photos from all his films since 2003's Wonderland--in the style of his friend photographer Peter...
...When [professors] are people you care about and revere, you are affected by them for your whole life,” he said. “The design studio is hand-to-hand combat basically. You got to know him very quickly...he was a great, big, lanky Polish bird, flapping and demonstrative.”In 2002, Soltan was awarded the Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education, which is given annually by the American Institute of Architects and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.The jury’s statement described Soltan as “the personification?...