Word: toiling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nowak (Jeremy Irons) is a master electrician from Warsaw, come to London with three laborers to renovate the Kensington home of a wealthy Pole. For a month's hard work the laborers will be paid a year's hard currency. The men will toil in isolation, separated from their families, the outside world and, increasingly, Nowak. He has decided it must be that way: it is December 1981, when, unknown to the three laborers, the Polish government has imposed martial...
...page parody? Yes indeed, for Oates needs the space, as she explains: "Alas, how shall we describe the trajectory of Romance? How shall we, obliged to toil in mere words, seek to illume the fleet, fluttering, gossamer sensations, elusive as the hummingbird, that course along the veins, and swell the captive heart, of the credulous...
...mark. Denmark's Georg Jensen's silver and opal Dragonfly brooch (1904) and fellow Dane Erik Magnussen's Grasshopper brooch (1907) of silver and coral are unmistakably art nouveau. They are also unmistakably Scandinavian. Like virtually all the objects in this exhibition, they show the patient toil brought to bear on stubborn, natural materials. This is what Frank Lloyd Wright called "organic" design...
...been replaced by tales of streetwise punks" [May 31]. Many of my students are streetwise, but also enjoy Emerson. His philosophy is applicable to the young person today who understands that with our economic turmoil "no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given...
...born to toil, and to be obsessive about his labors. Woman was born to complain: "You never pay any attention to me." More divorce wars seem to start with this skirmish than with anything else these days, and the virtues of Smash Palace begin with the simple fact that it has observed the phenomenon closely and painfully. Odd that we have to look as far away as New Zealand (not exactly one of our major movie centers) for what may be the most melodramatic but also the most acutely motivated film yet about divorce...