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Word: rita (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the curtain rises on Jerome Robbins' new ballet, Variations on I'm Old Fashioned, the audience sees a movie screen. A four-minute film clip from You Were Never Lovelier (1942) shows Fred Astaire dancing with the breathtakingly lovely Rita Hayworth, then 24. They start off slowly, pick up momentum, then get rambunctious, in an elegant way. Passing through the French doors at the end of the sequence, they even bump shoulders briefly before gliding off into one of the many mansions reserved for the gods of dance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: A Busy Springtime for Jerry | 6/27/1983 | See Source »

...Rita Gatton Cincinnati...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 20, 1983 | 6/20/1983 | See Source »

That may require the fullest exercise of his considerable political and personal skills. Only hours before the President hailed "a new beginning" for the agency, the House of Representatives voted, 413 to 0, to hold former EPA Official Rita Lavelle (head of the hazardous-waste program until she was fired in February) in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with a subpoena to testify before a House subcommittee. Meanwhile, the Justice Department was reported to be considering a grand jury investigation into allegations that Lavelle and former EPA General Counsel Robert Perry committed perjury in their testimony before Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chapter Two | 5/30/1983 | See Source »

...fact, Harvard couldn't manage to score until Jennifer White sneaked one past UMass goalie Rita Hubner with just 3:52 remaining in the first half, tying the score at 1-1. But three quick Minuteman tallies--including two in the final 30 seconds-put the Crimson on the short end of a 4-1 halftime score...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Stunned Laxwomen Bow out of National Tourney | 5/16/1983 | See Source »

...Crimson readily admits it will take a stellar performance to knock off the 11-1-1 Minuteman squad. Harvard Coach Carole Kleinfelder says her underdog squad will need to take as many shots as possible against the defensive-minded UMass team and goalie Rita Hubner, widely considered the finest in the nation...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: I'd Rather Be in Philadelphia | 5/13/1983 | See Source »

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