Word: mia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...really want to get even, get a lawyer. Despite that standard advice against representing oneself in court, Mia Lancaster could find no lawyer whom she thought willing and able to press her charges against her former boyfriend. So she argued her own case. A Manhattan jury was impressed: it awarded her more than $1 million, which, so far as court house buffs could recall, seemed to be the largest damages ever won by someone representing himself...
...abundant pleasures. The interweaving themes are sex and love; the tone is summer-solstice warm; the six characters dance an amorous roundelay whose steps are guided by biology, sympathy and caprice. Woody is again the chronically lovable shlemiel, torn between his passion for the ethereal Ariel (Mia Farrow) and his longing for the wife (Mary Steenburgen) he cannot satisfy sexually. When he tries and she finds his ardor disgusting, he retorts, "How can it be? I haven't taken my clothes off yet." Allen's directorial eye finds amusement in restraint, allowing characters to wander...
Romantic confusion provides the basis for much of the humor here, as everyone races around in a sexual frenzy or sits paralyzed by anxiety and fears of inadequacy. Character quirks, brought out by the mismatching of Jone Ferrar and Mia Farrow, who play a prompous professor and a flirtatious free-thinker, respectively, offer occasional giggles. Less obvious jokes are found in Golden Willis' whimsical camera work as he bobs and sways to portray the view from Allen's homemade flying bicycle...
Unfortunately, the humor in this sort of acting can be marred by just one actress in the small cast. Mia Farrow is beautiful but displays little capacity for the tongue-in-cheek delivery that keeps this script rolling. Her scenes drag, although the rest of the cast provides sparkle in Sex Comedy...
...scores of instances of mishandling cited by a major new study of drug promotion, sales, uses and abuses in Third World countries. The report was conducted over a period of eight years by Pharmacologist Milton Silverman of the University of California at San Francisco; his wife, U.C.S.F. Research Associate Mia Lydecker; and former HEW Assistant Secretary Dr. Philip Lee. Melodramatically titled Prescriptions for Death, the 172-page report diagnoses "an acute deficiency of social responsibility" on the part of the international pharmaceutical industry...