Word: sonya
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Crimson reporter Sonya C. Laurence dialed Boston Mayor Raymond Flynn's director of Constituent Affairs, Carmen A. Pola, she was more than a little surprised to have her call answered not by Pola, but by Mayor Flynn himself. Flynn was quite helpful, according to Laurence, and he even agreed to leave a message for the busy and unreachable bureaucrat...
...sole supporter of three children going through various phases of adolescent trauma. A ghostwriter, May writes books to order, bringing glory to a slew of semi-literate literary celebrities in return for modest cash rewards. To keep herself entertained, she intertwines the stories of late family members--Aunt Giselle, Sonya, Uncle Trasker--with the made-to-order material. Bored, poor, overworked--what's a girl to do? Friends have suggestions...
...while May has not scored a clean-cut victory for herself or for the other "little men" and, especially, little women, she has at least thrown a wrench into the workings of the Quayle machine; wrought a bit of anarchy worthy of Sonya's designs. Perhaps that is the best she could hope to do. In May Alto's world--one in which decency, even mere intelligence mark the losers and people like Quayle win the laurels--anarchy becomes a reasonable response. We cannot know whether a real alternative exists; whether Alto actually ever might have succeeded...
...SONYA KEENE, who said she learned wrist wrestling from her father and practiced the sport throughout her adolescence, will defend her women's 100-120-lb, division championship. She added, however, that her defense "is going to be difficult because I'm in a run-down condition because of illness...
...years in Harvard theater but have emerged with somewhat limited personae--McCue as a clever, charming but extremely mannered performer who shines in musicals and farces, Shohet as a technically competent but brash actress whose specialty is destructive bitchiness. I looked forward to seeing them as Vanya and Sonya because both parts would demand a considerable stretch, a certain nakedness that neither has hitherto displayed. But instead of stretching to their parts, both have stretched the parts to accommodate themselves. Shohet has made Sonya, the most compassionate and heroic force in the play, a self-absorbed little bully, failing...