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Pacula was tired, and she felt artistically stale. She decided to take a vacation, and she flew to Paris to stay with friends. Two months later she was making plans to return when, on Dec. 13, 1981, the Polish regime declared martial law and shut down the entertainment industry. "My theater was closed," says Pacula, "so I decided to wait in Paris." She called Polish-born Director Roman Polanski, who had seen her naked in the Operetta role. He had been impressed, he said last week: "Not many young actresses are capable of doing that, but Joanna had the looks...
...every stripe, from Dorothy Parker to Clifford Odets, had discovered this fantastic new way to waste their gifts and souls. That, at least, was the story many of them told throughout the '30s and '40s. The figure of the gin-soaked Hollywood sell-out became such a stale literary cliche that it found its way into the movies, where the studios and their hired scribblers could enjoy a hollow laugh at each other's expense...
...Harvard and women's tennis team dropped the second match in as many days yesterday, this time falling to a powerful Northwestern squad, 8-1. The Crimson bowed to Oklahoma Stale, 7-2, Thursday...
Moreover, the U.S. intends to begin in stalling 572 new medium-range Pershing II and cruise missiles in Western Europe later this year. Even though these weapons are on the agenda of the stale mated INF talks, the Soviets consider them a strategic threat, since they can reach into the U.S.S.R. In that sense, INF and START are clearly linked. Thus, as the U.S. position hardens at START, the implications for INF are inauspicious...
Reagan has proved repeatedly throughout his term that he is out to reduce student aid. His latest proposal, while it sounds nice, is merely sweet icing for the same stale, bitter cake...