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...Mira Nair as Creon's wife Pilar also gives Antigona plenty to react to. Vain, evil and ambitious, Nair survives what must be poorly translated lines with the proper doses of viper and Eva Peron...
Connoisseurs find the product slightly mushy, even when consumed with vodka. But at $5.90 a lb., compared with $24.50 for the real thing, there has been nothing soft about initial sales of the fake caviar. At the Okean (Ocean) fish store on Moscow's Prospekt Mira, where the pilot plant's output is sold, every scrap of the entire daily production sells out in only two hours...
...group's prospects for hanging together for five whole years. They decided that their do-it-yourself project was indeed practical. After carefully selecting a site that was suitably high, dry and far from city lights in the Los Padres National Forest near Monterey, they dubbed their brainchild MIRA-the Monterey Institute for Research in Astronomy...
...MIRA was apparently born under some lucky stars. Ordinarily, it would have cost some $150,000 for the telescope alone. Before long, Bruce Weaver, 28, was able to talk Princeton University into providing-on "indefinite loan"-a 36-in. mirror for the reflecting telescope. An astronomer at Lick Observatory near San Jose volunteered to design the instrument free of charge, and a Los Angeles metal fabricator has agreed to build it at cost-about $20,000. In all, well-wishers have donated more than $100,000 in free equipment, including two computers, one of which will control the telescope...
...help make personal ends meet, the six astronomers have begun a discount book-jobbing business, which last year grossed $40,000. Ultimately, one of the observatory computers will mastermind the book operation, helping to bring in revenues while MIRA concentrates on its first major goal: the compilation of a data bank on the 125,000 brightest stars visible from the Northern Hemisphere. Now that they are involved with MIRA, the six young astronomers find the prospect of conventional employment in their field much less alluring than before. "I'd stay right here with this now, even if a terrific...