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Less than one hour before that limit, Walesa emerged from the building to announce that an agreement had been reached and the strike was being canceled. Cheers erupted from the crowd of several thousand workers and housewives assembled before the wrought-iron gates. They chanted Walesa's nickname, "Leszek, Leszek." As Walesa's car inched through the crush of supporters, some overexuberant fans even managed to lift the rear wheels off the ground. A sticker on Walesa's windshield seemed to capture the spirit of the moment: IT'S EXCITING TO BE POLISH...
From his black-trimmed London studio, Aubrey Beardsley transformed book illustration into high art. His use of curves and filigrees had the delicacy and tensile strength of Victorian wrought iron, but his subjects-fauns, satyrs, naked slaves-earned him a reputation of fearful decadence. Even in the prurient "yellow nineties," when young men dragged live lobsters down Pall Mall on silken leashes, Beardsley was singled out. "A monstrous orchid," Oscar Wilde proclaimed him, a judgment unchallenged until...
...fine style" that is more classical than conversational. The writing reads easily, remaining at all times calm, collected, and carefully conceived. Nothing is by chance. No risks are taken, and there are no hard edges or unseemly passions. Instead, there is just a lucid, self-possessed expression so carefully wrought that it seems to be the tasteful product of some fastidious, bespectacled old Swiss metal smith: smooth, accurate, and refined to 24-carat purity. The graceful delicacy, not often found in fiction today, gives the prose an elegiac air of some other century...
...amount of harassment, however, seemed likely to break up a growing alliance between Polish workers, dissident intellectuals and students. Behind the wrought-iron gate of the University of Warsaw last week, 1,000 students, professors and union officials gathered to commemorate the anniversary of the 1968 campus riots. Speaker after speaker declared that workers and students would never again be split as they were 13 years ago. Yet for all its emotional underpinnings, the demonstration was also marked by internal discipline and control. Every one seemed to sense the limits and dangers of Poland's bold experiment. "A social...
...producers of Woman of the Year have done all they can to make their show a saleable commodity--and reportedly spend as much as $2 million in the process. A bankable "name," a highly-wrought production and proven backstage performers should have begotten a success. Yet for all its trimmings, Woman of the Year is empty inside, a great big birthday present tied up with a shiny bow, holding nothing but more and more boxes...