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...Rita A. Grassi campaigned for her brother Joe outside of the Miller River polling place. She said, "For the elderly it's hard to get up here. They used to go to St. Francis, and this is a much further walk...
...Leonora, who left him so she could make something of herself and now attends college. The two have since moved on to other love interests; Leonora, known as Lee, has been seeing her English professor (William Hurt), and Gus has been contemplating moving in with his devoted girl-friend, Rita (Mary Louise Parker) Contact between Gus and Lee is typically unamicable, filled with mutual accusations concerning who brought about the failure of their marriage. Their squabbles can't conceal that these two are bound to fall for each other inthe...
Poet Laureate Rita Dove, Nobel Prize-winning author Wole Soyinka and President Neil L. Rudenstine all praised W.E.B. Du Bois yesterday in what speakers said was a long overdue recognition of the pioneering scholar...
...Rita Dove embarks on her poet laureateship...
...fitting, then, that America's new poet laureate is Rita Dove, a black woman who calls herself a spiritual heir of Wheatley's, and whose verses appeal not only to the senses but also to the imagination and the intellect. Moreover, Dove does her work on Jefferson's own turf. She lives with her husband, German novelist Fred Viebahn, and their 10-year-old daughter Aviva on a wooded hillside near Charlottesville, Virginia, a 15-minute drive from Monticello. She teaches creative writing at the University of Virginia, which Jefferson founded. And last week she made her public debut...