Word: rita
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...British) as well as tradition (yes, going strong and apparently about to enter the second millennium, The Mousetrap) while also accommodating experiment. A radical theater company has been performing Accidental Death of an Anarchist just off Leicester Square, and the R.S.C. has rented a nearby theater for Educating Rita, a lively comedy in which cultures get crossed like phone wires...
Kirsten Skrinde as lusty, honest Rita and Eliza Gagnon as imaginative, quiet Carter carry off their roles with greatest success. Skrinde's Rita is the most consistently funny character, but there is a bite to her humor, as in her account of a job interview: after tea and charming conversation, the interviewer asked her if she had experience with a xerox machine--"yes," she said, "and I've tasted my menstrual blood, too." Gagnon's brooding Carter is so contained at the start of the play that when she finally erupts, announcing her goal "to put Wittgenstein on film...
DIED. Dick Haymes, 64, buttery-voiced baritone and film star who sang with some of the finest of the swing era's Big Bands (including Tommy Dorsey's and Benny Goodman's), married often (six wives, including Rita Hayworth) and was probably known best for his renditions of songs like It Might as Well Be Spring; of lung cancer; in Los Angeles...
...think the B.U.-Harvard game will be determined by who out-hustles who," Crimson coach Rita Harder said yesterday, adding that she believes B.U. forward Nancy Kilik will be a formidable obstacle to a Harvard...
With coach Rita Harder routinely substituting her third line instead of her usual tactics--alternating the first two--the Cardinals tallied the first goal in period one on a breakaway attempt that caught Harvard netminder Katie Williams off guard...