Word: rita
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ball handling and scoring efforts of B.C. freshman Rita Roach continued to perplex the Crimson defense. She dribbled through the press, and often found her team mates right beneath the basket. She also tallied 12 points...
Commented B.C. Coach Margo Plotzke on the game. "We played the worst game we've ever played. I don't think we really wanted to win as much as Harvard, and they nearly took it away from us." She noted. "Rita Roach had a really super game for a freshman. I was pleased with that...
...George J. Church. Reported by Lee Griggs/Chicago and Rita Healy/Denver
...opening novells of Different Seasons, "Hope Springs Eternal: Rita Hayworth and Shasta Redemption," is about a jailbreak. Not a very imaginatively conceived jailbreak. Not a very credible narrator. Not many quotable lines. Not a very good story...
King wrote it immediately upon the completion of one of his later novels, The Dead Zone. But in "Rita Hayworth," his sense of the macabre is notably absent. The story suffers: the style is stilled, the mood is tense, the characters shallow, and the ultimate effect is forced. "Rita Hayworth and Shasta Redemption" is not Stephen King...