Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...liking this adaptation of the Off-Broadway musical hit -- it has no polish and a pushy way with a gag -- but the movie sneaks up on you, about as subtly as Audrey II. The songs are neat pastiches of '60s pop. The plant is an animatronic wonder, all blue gums, naughty tendrils and mighty mouth. Moranis and Greene make for a comely-homely pair of thwarted lovers, and Martin is his hilarious self, libeling all dentists who had just managed to forget Marathon Man. Then Bill Murray shows up as the perfect dental patient, sublime masochist to Martin's cheerful...
...interpreter of religion in the U.S. Leander Keck, dean of the Divinity School at Yale, observes that Marty is not only a noteworthy religion scholar but a "front-rank popularizer . . . In this country there isn't anyone comparable." Other academic commentators, says Keck, lack Marty's breadth of information, polish and "enormous energy...
...country's Communist Party Congress last summer, Polish Leader Wojciech Jaruzelski promised to set up a national "consultative council" of respected citizens to advise the government. The names of the council's 56 participants were released last week, but the roster was not as representative as some observers had hoped. The roll includes 17 Communist Party members but no top leaders of the outlawed trade union Solidarity; Wladyslaw Sila-Nowicki, 73, a lawyer who defended Solidarity members in several trials, is expected to serve as the group's representative. The Roman Catholic Church declined to nominate any delegates. Though exact...
...levels, while net investment in industry and agriculture in the same period fell by 50% and exports that bring in badly needed hard currency dropped almost 25%. The biggest drain continues to be Poland's huge foreign debt, which now stands at more than $31 billion. Last September Polish and Western negotiators signed an agreement rescheduling 95% of the payments owed to lenders through 1987. Still, Finance Minister Bazyli Samojlik conceded last week that Poland would not be able to meet the $550 million due before the end of this year...
...Polish officials complain that their economic woes have been made worse by Western trade restrictions imposed after martial law was declared. Last October Solidarity Founder Lech Walesa and nine other prominent Polish opposition figures and moderate intellectuals issued an appeal to the U.S., urging President Reagan to "play a significant role" in putting the Polish economy back on track by lifting the remaining U.S. sanctions. Washington may be receptive to the plea. "Things are warming up step by step," says an Administration official. "But we have always urged caution. The Poles have often announced sweeping changes and then have failed...