Word: rit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Presidential commands produced casualties. The bands were off-key. Bluster was meaningless in that jungle. Theater vérit...
...like almost all good documentaries in the cinéma vérité style, Say Amen, Somebody is a work of cultural anthropology. It is an exploration of a small, isolated world one would not ordinarily have a chance to penetrate, and it is exotic to the outlander's eye until the film makes the connections to our ordinary ways of life clear and uncommonly affecting. Take Dorsey, for example. He combines a holy man's zeal, a performer's ego and a revered older man's self-contentment, and the film's portrait...
DIED. Ed Fitzgerald, 89, chatty, erudite radio veteran who teamed with his wife Pegeen 43 years ago to start one of the first husband-and-wife radio talk programs; in New York City. The Fitzgeralds gave their audience a daily dose of soap opera vérité, ranging from family spats to discussions of cats, Fitzgerald's failing health and news events, all of it laced with low-key gossip, Shakespearean quotations and rambling reminiscences...
...RIT, which had suffered a 9-1 thrashing at the hands of Providence's Lady Friars, met an identical fate against Harvard in the consolation game. Right wing Liz Ward's wrist shot beat RIT goalie Lorri Tuohey just seven seconds into the game, and the Crimson giggled all the way home...
...from the N.M. Rothschild bank, but Evelyn turned down that suggestion. Finally Jacob capitulated. Saying that he was sad that the "difference of opinion within the family" had become public, he resigned as a director of N.M. Rothschild and agreed to change his firm's name to RIT Ltd. However, he has put management of its assets into another organization called J. Rothschild and Co., meaning he will continue to display the family label...