Search Details

Word: misha (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...hurled by Abkhazian insurgents trying to take the city of Sukhumi, the capital of their autonomous region within Georgia. Suddenly, an exploding shell shook the house from the left. Then another concussion, this time from the right. The enemy artillery was zeroing in on its target. "Outside everyone!" shouted Misha, the black-bearded commander. "They have found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Siege of Sukhumi | 10/4/1993 | See Source »

...French soldiers, womanizer Gaston-Phillip (Misha Glouberman) and rock n' roll fan Phillip-Gaston (Scott Cole) wear identical uniforms and mustaches. Neither soldier realizes that the man who wears a soldier's shirt with an Arabic skirt and who periodically reveals his patriotism to the audience is an Algerian spy (Jonathan Fisher...

Author: By Dvora Inwood, | Title: Sign of the Times | 2/13/1992 | See Source »

Established in 1970 by skater John Misha Petkevich, then a junior at Harvard, An Evening with Champions, one of the largest annual contributors to the Jimmy Fund, has raised cumulatively over 1.25 million dollars. For the past two years, the show has raised as much...

Author: By Peter I. Rosenthal, | Title: An Evening With Champions | 10/30/1991 | See Source »

...thinking of a considerably weakened role for his former rival in a future bare-bones Union: Gorbachev glad-handing visiting heads of state, Gorbachev keeping the country's electric grid in working order or Gorbachev making certain the trains run on time. As one brazen Russian slogan put it, "Misha, don't forget under whose flag you were rescued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Chastened Character In Search of a Role | 9/9/1991 | See Source »

...important now to work with someone I admire." He had danced Morris' work earlier and spotted him as someone who saw dance the way he did, musically. "Mark decodes a composer's thought," Baryshnikov says. "He uses dance like an extra instrument." As for Morris, he seized on "Misha's" special lyricism at once: "He's a fabulous phraser, and I really do think he is that strange poet in Les Sylphides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: The Mark and Misha Show | 9/17/1990 | See Source »

First | Previous | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | Next | Last