Word: rita
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...river, progress is more encouraging, officials said. Rita Barron, executive director of the Charles River Watershed Association, said yesterday that up river of the Watertown dam, meets federal standards for swimming in most sections...
What they are all after is a journal in which the priest describes a Cambodia-based Soviet military project that could trigger World War III. The priest's journal is finally retrieved by a comely, red-haired reporter, Rita Macklin, who, unlike most other fictional red-haired reporters, is both credible and vulnerable. Schism, like his first novel, November Man, shows Bill Granger to be deft at high-wire suspense. His prose has the gritty tone of a Le Carre and a special feeling for a burned-out case...
...when the team split, Astaire kept doing it all, on his own. Though his dancing partners in the next two decades included such game gals as Rita Hayworth, Judy Garland, Cyd Charisse, Leslie Caron and Audrey Hepburn, Astaire's most famous dance numbers were now his solos. And alone he used the properties of film as cleverly as he had earlier translated stage dancing to the screen. He defied time by dancing in slow motion in Easter Parade, defied gravity by dancing up walls and across ceilings in Royal Wedding, defied age by hoofing elegantly through his sixth, seventh...
...Rita Walsh-Tomasini and Jean McGuire, both second-time candidates, finished in the top five, and should do well in the final. Both have been active in public school affairs as parents for many years; McGuire would be a second Black member of the committee...
Just what had Kathy Boudin been doing for the past ten years? Rita Jensen, 38, a reporter for the Stamford (Conn.) Advocate, told her paper that for the past 20 months she had shared a Manhattan apartment with Boudin and the fugitive's one-year-old son Chesa. Jensen says that she did not know the history of the woman she knew as Lynn Adams, and that she believed her roommate was supporting herself as a waitress. City officials said that Boudin, using the name Adams, had been collecting $355 a month in welfare benefits. William Kunstler...