Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MOONLIGHTING, POLISH DIRECTOR Jerzy Skolimkowski distills from the quotidian black-and-white headlines of political upheaval a pure narrow gray band of personal experience. The subject--four Poles stranded in London during the imposition of martial law naturally invites an impassioned ideological treatment, but Skolimkowski's film is, on the surface, politically devoid. Instead we are given nearly flawless meditation on exile from an interior perspective...
Since his installation nearly three months ago, Archbishop Joseph Bernardin has barnstormed his new archdiocese, the largest in the nation. He has called on Polish parishioners in the blue-collar suburb of Cicero, conducted a prayer service in honor of the city's Hispanics, mingled with crowds at an ethnic-heritage Mass and family picnic in Grant Park and appeared in full ecclesiastical garb to bless Catholic charismatics. He has alternately pressed the flesh of the faithful and turned a sympathetic ear to complaints about parochial-school funds and church closings. However distressing the nuclear dilemma...
...Yale alum, asked the Glee Club to participate in a USIA broadcast for Voice of America radio Aired December 13, the program will mark the first anniversary of the Soviet crackdown in Poland, the move which eventually destroyed the labor union Solidarity and squelched the freedom of the Polish people...
Solidarity is a state of mind, and no one can crush that feeling. The Polish people may suffer repression, but no one can diminish their desire for freedom...
...Polish government outlaws Solidarity. Our country responds by suspending most-favored-nation status for Polish exports of manufactured goods to this country. This move, which is supposed to support Polish workers, punishes them...