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Peter (Alec Baldwin) and Rita (Meg Ryan) have a love too good to be true. He is sensible and cute; she is vague and cute. "Let's get married," he says, almost as soon as he meets her. "O.K.," she says. On their wedding day, an anonymous old man (Sydney Walker) gives Rita a congratulatory kiss . . . and things start to go sour. On their honeymoon, she doesn't drink; Rita was a Dewar's girl. Before, she was forgetful; now she is an amnesiac. Suddenly she is fastidious in her lovemaking. To Peter, Rita seems another person. Isn't everyone...
McCartney stands now over the control board, chewing his fingernails. For three days, he has been fretting about just the right sound for one track, a number reminiscent of Abbey Road. Fans are forever pestering him with questions about the Walrus, Rita the meter maid, Desmond and Molly, and, of course, the secret message on Revolution 9. But McCartney refuses to overanalyze the Beatles' songs. "They're just songs," he says. "We never had a theme on a Beatles album, even Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. We kinda knew we were reflecting the times...
...spent a part of each of his summers in Louisiana, where his mother was raised, and in the summer before college, he began to recognize it as a locus for his poetry. In the summer of 1988, he says, "I fell in love with [the Pulitzer-Prize winning poet] Rita Dove." He read and re-read her collection titled Thomas and Beulah, and then began to listen to his family's stories in a way he hadn't before, with a historic and poetic ear. "I realized I could write about my family, that it was a valid thing...
...indebtedness to other works and to other writers, to teachers and students. There are footnotes in his speech; he reminds me to ask him about the poets he has read, and quotes a friend in Adams House as carefully he would such poets as Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott, or Rita Dove. He is almost fastidious in acknowledging his influences. "I'm not a T.S. Eliot--I know where I came from," he says. "A lot of different places," But at the same time, he distances himself from labels of membership...
Swimmer Don Bae was also honored last night as the top male scholar-athlete and triple-jumper Rita Raju was honored as Harvard's top female scholar-athlete...