Word: polisher
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Kieslowski illustrates each of the Ten Commandments in an hour-long story. Originally made for Polish TV, those tales, whispering instead of thundering their morals, form, as a movie, a tender and unpretentious epic about ordinary people striving to be good in an indifferent world...
Underneath the polish, however, Zielinski has his insecurities about where he came from and where he's headed. He came to West Point as a rebel. Growing up among the preppies of Fairfield, Conn., the brother of a Princeton-grad investment banker and a son of a media executive, he was drawn to military life because he wanted something more than just a good job. He originally had his heart set on going into the Navy to become a fighter pilot, but when he visited West Point, he fell in love with its emphasis on the basic relationship of leader...
...what their music lacked in classically-trained polish, it “made up with twice the heart,” and the young Aesop eagerly devoured diverse mix-tapes given to him by his older brother, regardless of the ostensible categorization of the artists included...
...Eastern Europeans are very loud,” says Polish and Ghanaian Sam Palmer-Amaning ’05, a former president of the society. “Imagine coming to an event and seeing the whole Romanian crowd cheering and dancing, all speaking in the same language and singing the same songs. Someone may think that he’s come to a cultural party instead of a Woodbridge event...
...Although Polish, Bulgarian, and Romanian societies exist, Eastern Europeans lack a united organization...