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...Rita Rudner's wide-eyed, lighter-than-air delivery brings the news that "men with pierced ears are better prepared for marriage -- they've experienced pain and bought jewelry...
...just can't bring myself to buy a compact-disc player until I have something in writing that says that's the last thing they're going to invent," says comedian Rita Rudner. Sorry, Rita. Now there's a major new format to agonize over: digital audio tape. Sony's model DTC-75ES, the first mass-market DAT recorder available in the U.S., began arriving in stores last week...
Ever since, Kohl's guiding principle has been to preserve and enlarge his own personal power. Competitors within his own party, such as Kurt Biedenkopf, former General Secretary Heiner Geissler, and the President of the Bundestag Rita Sussmuth were either demoted or "promoted" to figurehead positions. Now, his Christian Democrats are in the lamentable state of lacking any leadership figure besides Kohl...
Griffen, the Harvard record holder in the shot put and 20-lb. weight, took first place honors in both events. Teammate Christine Roberge was also a two-event winner, capturing both the long jump and high jump. Rita Raju completed the Crimson sweep of the Huskies in the field events, topping the field in the triple jump with a mark of 11.26 meters...
Maybe one of those soldiers could have come home and saved her from her sad, passive fate. But If This Was Happiness makes such a possibility seem unlikely. Barbara Leaming, who has also written biographies of Roman Polanski and Orson Welles (Rita Hayworth's second husband), argues that Hollywood's Love Goddess was doomed from childhood to a private hell of uncertainty and unhappiness...