Word: polishers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when you know that, no matter what, he's going to take time out to write back to you. The responses aren't long, and they aren't always handwritten. Sometimes he'll scribble his response on the margin of a speech or some document, and Sister Eufrosina -- a Polish nun who's been with him for years -- is very good at making out what he's written and typing it up." She adds, "I think of him as a man who needs to stay in touch with his friends because he is so terribly busy...
Profile: Philosopher and autocrat, Polish priest and Roman Pontiff, aging...
...Polish nebbish gets even with the nasty Frenchwoman of his dreams. In this dark comedy (second episode in the wonderful Blue-White-Red trilogy), director Krzysztof Kieslowski cannily observes the flourishing of capitalism and the festering of emotion in his wayward homeland...
Symphonies Nos. 3 and 4 (Sony). Krzysztof Penderecki may be better known, but Lutoslawski, a composer of uncompromising integrity, was the dean of contemporary Polish composers. He died in February, but his work lives on in these splendid readings by Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Particularly noteworthy is the Fourth Symphony, Lutoslawski's last and most moving orchestral essay...
...John Paul approaches the twilight of his papacy, the question arises -- who will be the next Pope? For more than 450 years before Karol Wojtyla's elevation, the papacy was held by Italians. And when the present Polish experiment is over, some Vatican insiders insist that the Holy See will be returned to its traditional caretakers. "You can bet your last dollar that the next Pope will be one of ours," said one up-and-coming Roman prelate. "I don't know who it will be, but he'll be Italian...