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Paying Up. The bride's mother and father shelled out for the Zhivago wingding, but--fretful parents everywhere, take heart--such a practice has become modified of late, especially as couples getting married tend to be a little older and already established. Says Rita Bloom Smith, president of a wedding consultancy firm in Kensington, Md.: "No woman today past 25 is going to let < someone else run that show." Vincent Landano, 28, who married Maria Castellano, 24, in Brooklyn on May 31, dug into his own pocket to pay for the proceedings--including a vase of swimming goldfish to decorate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Scenes From a Marriage | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

...Rita Coolidge, 40, singer, on why she has decided to take more career chances: "Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks, and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Record: Feb. 3, 1986 | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

...conservation group will use part of the funding to encourage owners to restrict real estate development along the riverbanks according to state guidelines written in 1971 and adopted by the Watershed Association eleven years ago, Executive Director Rita Barron said yesterday...

Author: By Laura S. Kohl, | Title: State Gives Birthday Gift To Charles River Group | 11/12/1985 | See Source »

...known today as a great actor-manager who also dabbled in movies. If the films had not been preserved, Welles' trim exuberance would not have so cuttingly mocked the Falstaffian corpulence of his maturity. One generation knows him as the brilliant light that Hollywood failed and as the guy Rita Hayworth married before Aly Khan. Another generation thinks of him as a wine salesman, ballast at a Dean Martin Roast table and butt of Johnny Carson's "fat" jokes, all of which he bore with wounded dignity. Welles' premature burial in the flesh of his profligacy and self-destruction needs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Orson Welles 1915-1985: The Man Did Make Movies | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

...over the past five years stems from Reagan's initial choice of top officials who were ill- prepared to handle the difficult mandate. Anne Burford, a Colorado lawyer and Republican Party fund raiser, was tapped in 1981 to head EPA; at White House urging, she approved the selection of Rita Lavelle, a California publicist who had worked for a chemical company (Aerojet General Corp.), to direct the Superfund start-up. In the mismanagement that followed, Lavelle was convicted of perjury for denying any involvement in EPA's dealings with the Stringfellow Acid Pits, a notorious waste dump in California, where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: A Problem That Cannot Be Buried | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

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