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Word: rita (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Guiness portrays a combination hero's-brother-in-law-secret-policeman-movie-narrator, who, at the outset, is confronted with Rita Tushingham as an orphaned Russian peasant girl. Miss Tushingham has wisely made a habit of playing lasses of English extraction, but by the mere application of a little makeup and a babushka she become as Russian as Lithuania...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: Dr. Zhivago | 3/16/1966 | See Source »

...Julie Christie had been my mother I don't think I would have forgotten, but Rita Tushingham unfortunately has. Unfortunately, because it gives Guiness an excuse, however lame, to launch into the three-thousand-seventeen-minute story of Dr. Zhivago and his small circle of intimates...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: Dr. Zhivago | 3/16/1966 | See Source »

Overburdened with social significance and sloppy syntax, Trap is chiefly notable for the appearance in a secondary role of onetime glamour girl Rita Hayworth. Rita, frequently cast opposite Ford since they co-starred in Gilda in 1946, plays a frowzy, pathetic old flame who knows the rackets but preserves all her secrets in booze. Puffy, plainspoken, her veneer meticulously scraped away, Rita at 47 has never looked less like a beauty, or more like an actress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mortality Plays | 2/11/1966 | See Source »

...LEATHER BOYS. Rita Tushingham, as a teen-aged trollop who nearly loses her restless young husband to his motorcycling mate, in a freewheeling portrait of British youth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Feb. 4, 1966 | 2/4/1966 | See Source »

Last week, in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Achs and Dr. Rita Harper ran the number of palm-printed abnormalities up to 20. And although most such disorders involve chromosomal defects determined at the moment of conception, the latest implicated a viral disease. To get clear prints from the hands of tiny, squirming infants, Dr. Achs and her colleagues found that the policeman's inkpad and fingerprint technique would not do; instead they used a direct photographic method developed by New York's Philips Laboratories. The babies' palms were pressed against a prism so that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diagnosis: The Telltale Palm | 1/28/1966 | See Source »

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