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Although the two men still face criminal charges, their release from jail was counted as a major concession from the government and reason enough to call off the citywide strike. To keep the pressure on, steelworkers briefly closed the giant Huta Warszawa plant, and the Warsaw union put other factories on "strike alert." The aim was to force talks on a series of other, highly incendiary demands. Among them: creation of a parliamentary commission to investigate the operations of the police and the state prosecutor, and budget cuts for the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which oversees law enforcement. By thus...
...influence of Eno is immediately obvious. The crown prince of electronic rock plays on 7 of the 11 tracks, and collaborates with Bowie on the most successful of the instrumental pieces, "Warszawa." Using piano, mini-Moog, Chamberlain and E.M.I. (don't even ask), Eno creates a work of majesty and spirituality. Medieval in feeling, with a bass drone borrowed from Russian liturgy, it is punctuated by Bowie's decent imitation of the sharp, nasal song style of Eastern Europe. You have the sense of sunlight glowing through the windows of a cathedral; gloomy, but at the same time gloriously transcendant...
...THIS quality for which Bowie unsuccessfully strives in the other instrumental tracks of the album. The sustained and simple melody that succeed in "Warszawa" only make the other compositions simplistic and monotonous. Though they vary in the instruments used and in the general tone of each, none of the others have the thrust or commitment that could take them beyond the level of experimentation. Bowie hauls in a cartload of interesting effects--but his electronic toys weigh him down. He is too reliant on the variety of synthesized sounds he can achieve, and neglects the compositional structure necessary to unite...
...behind the Iron Curtain, the situation is even blacker. Secondhand autos of every make, year and origin are quickly snapped up at astronomical prices, e.g., $5,000 for a tiny secondhand Renault. The price of 90,000 zlotys ($22,500 at the official rate of exchange) for a new Warszawa represents 250 weeks' work for a Pole. Hungarians, Bulgarians and Rumanians, who manufacture no cars of their own, must set their sights on imported Russian Pobedas, which cost them the equivalent of from 130 weeks' work to 750 weeks' work (in Rumania), depending on the currency. Even...
...Warszawa (Warsaw...