Word: ilana
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another sort. The three women are film positives. Elaborately costumed, they walk and sit and whisper as if they were snapshots from 1910, the play could be an existential joke, a reductio ad absurdam of both comedy and farce. As the three characters, Kathy Bybee, Immy Humes, and Ilana DeBare seem ready to play their parts for laughs. One is haughty, another childlike, the third cute. But all aspects of the five-minute-long play are commendably understated, from the grey lighting to the long poses. It is understandable that a serious minded audience would remain in reverential silence during...
...most extraordinary medical dialogue, however, has occurred not face to face but over the air waves. For the past five years, Israeli radio has broadcast to the Arab world a program called Tabib warn al microphone (Doctor Behind the Microphone). Originated by an Iraqi-born Israeli woman named Ilana Basri and broadcast every Friday (the Moslem day of worship), it features a kind of "Dear Abby." During the 30-min. program, Israeli doctors reply directly to Arab correspondents who write in with their complaints...
...course, do not regard the activity merely as a Sunday or vacation sport but as part of everyday existence. Harvard English Professor Joel Porte, for example, sold his car four years ago, and hasn't "even been tempted" to own one since. Instead, Porte, 36, and his wife Ilana, 31, get by on ordinary $35 three-speed English bicycles; he makes the trip from Belmont, a Boston suburb, to the Cambridge campus in 17 minutes flat. Last week, just before her first baby was due, Mrs. Porte was still running errands by bike...