Word: tomaszewski
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...crusading reporter for Poland's opposition Solidarity Weekly in the 1980s, Malgorzata Niezabitowska was among the most prominent voices of the revolution. She wrote exposés about illegal demonstrations and military crackdowns. With her husband, photographer Tomasz Tomaszewski, she chronicled the darkest days of martial law, smuggling her diaries (written under a pseudonym) and photos of tanks in the streets out of the country to a world hungry for news of Poland's awakening dissent. Later, in 1989, she was appointed spokeswoman for the government of Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Poland's first democratically elected Prime Minister. Niezabitowska's charisma...
Director Henryk Tomaszewski has turned a traditional ballet scenario--a young princess looking over various suitors in order to choose a husband--into a grotesque, surrealistic fantasy. All Phylissa's wooers first enter gallantly, then run scared as her lust switches on. Little Napoleon, terror-struck, stabs himself in the groin. Max-Pipifax makes it further, to bed with the empress, only to be eaten by her highness--who proceeds to throw up on his flesh. The two are hardly men, nor are the rabble of other lewd cavaliers, truly Phylissa's menagerie of beasts...
...last scene, the "consummation of love", according to program notes, brings together a rabble of Hell's Angels on bikes (had Tomaszewski seen "Easy Rider?") with the empress's ladies--and gentlemen-in-waiting. A robot sputters on stage: can a machine be even more black than the preceding parade of frenetic suitors? At the end Phylissa stares with one eye down an inverted clarion; with the other becoming a wild, monstrous orb she eclipses the entire stage. The stage blacks out. The image of that disembodied eye stays with you, as does the memory of men cut from themselves...
Wine Time. While Joe Tomaszewski's boys play the Happy-Go-Lucky Polka, two representatives of the Richfield American Legion Clown Club do their turns for Bernie's 100-odd invited guests and scores of passersby. Bernie figures the festivities have cost him $400, which he paid out of his purple checkbook (he writes in purple...
...camper and began their honeymoon at half time. No weddings occurred this time, but still many were reluctant to leave. "Not everyone can get out of the parking lot at once," slurred one hanger-on who kept it up way past 6 p.m., when even the boys in Joe Tomaszewski's Polish Show Band had packed up and left...