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...Dusa (Mira Sorvino) is a mod mom who eulogizes the virtues of motherhood. By playing Dusa with false sincerity, Sorvino does not make her a credible character. The fourth woman, Fish (Heather Gunn), is a journalist-activist-feminist and the most ideologically optimistic woman of the bunch--often hopeful to the point of idiocy. Gunn's overstudied performance does little to help us sympathize with...

Author: By Jocelyn L. Morin, | Title: Harvard Theater | 3/20/1987 | See Source »

Those returning are hardly representative of the majority of Soviet emigres who have settled in the West. During the 1970s, some 400,000 Soviet citizens, / most of them Jews, left their homeland, primarily for the U.S. or Israel. "The majority adjusted," said Mira Wolf, executive director of the Russian Immigrant Adjustment and Service Center. "They have happy families here and jobs," added Wolf, whose center is in a Brooklyn, N.Y., neighborhood that is home to more than 12,000 Soviet families. She feared that the current focus on the trickle of returnees will divert attention from the "thousands who want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union The Long Hard Road to Moscow | 1/12/1987 | See Source »

...times during the '60s, a player or so was worth cheering, such as Passer George Mira or Pass Rusher Ted Hendricks. But the highlight of the '70s, a bowl-less interlude for the Hurricanes, was the time that the University of Florida literally lay down to let them score. A peripatetic coach named Lou Saban came along then, and before moving on in two years, recruited a monstrous class headed by Quarterback Jim Kelly. He is the current matinee idol of the Buffalo Bills. Saban's successor, Howard Schnellenberger, backed Kelly up with Ohioan Bernie Kosar and Long Islander Testaverde...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Miami Against the World | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

...playwright-within-the-play Jason Carmichael (David Fisher), an arrogant but talented man, marries a someone (Eliza Gleason) whom he doesn't really love. Then Jason meets Phoebe Craddock (Mira Sorvina), a young woman who idolizes him. But Jason doesn't realize that Phoebe loves him and treats her merely as a junior partner in their writing endeavors--although he obviously likes her presence...

Author: By Matthew H. Joseph, | Title: Plays Within Plays | 3/15/1986 | See Source »

...sort of a nice complement [to the other singing groups]," said Veritone Mira K. Sorvino '89. "I don't really see the Veritones as a stepping-stone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Move Over, Kroks and Dins: Here Come the 'Veritones' | 10/5/1985 | See Source »

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