They ran that way past the Mexican establishments in Bay Ridge and the Hasidic blocks and Polish blocks in Williamsburg and the yuppie joints of the East Side and the resurgent sliver of the South Bronx, more involved with the marathon than it was a decade ago.
Maceral nomenclature has been applied differently by some European coal petrologists who studied polished blocks of coal using reflected-light microscopy (their terminology is based on morphology, botanical affinity, and mode of occurrence) and by some North American petrologists who studied very thin slices (thin sections) of coal using transmitted-light microscopy.
The Spanish and Polish governments blocked agreement in December.
One marvels too at the under-surface play of spiritual light and dark; the various digs at inbred social hierarchy; the little nudges to us to pick up multiple meanings, not just in words like "finishing" and "polished" and "block" (as in writer's, or the piece of wood where heads get cut off), but in everything signalling to us, all around us all the time.
Dillon then polishes the blocks to a mirror finish as reflective as marble or granite.
But the Polish government is blocking the deal nonetheless.
And Poland vetoed a new partnership agreement with Russia last year, because the Russians were blocking Polish meat exports.
Remember that Polish heroism in blocking the Bolshevik advance into Europe, in the 1920 battle known as the "miracle of the Vistula", stopped communism marching westwards.
In works like "Old Polish Music" (1969), blocks of assertive, high-energy brass writing are juxtaposed with eerie, slow-moving, pianissimo string passages.
In a little-noticed speech filled with patriotic themes, the treasury minister, Wojciech Jasinski, outlined a strategy last month to sell 49percentt of the government's holdings to "Polish investors" in blocks of 5percentto10percentcent.
Recently, I was talking with one of the doormen on my block, a Polish émigré studying business at CUNY during the day and working overnights in one of the buildings that make up West 110th Street.
