Word: ridden
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...best of all possible worlds, contrary to any notions Leibniz or Voltaire might have had, was post-Civil War New Orleans. Not a mere metropolis, New Orleans was an emerging economic powerhouse ridden with racial tension, an elegant locus of brilliance of all sorts, and very nearly, if Christopher Benfey is to be believed, a living, breathing entity. The great painter Edgar Degas sojourned in this charmed city for several months in 1872 and 1873, and an enamored Benfey seized the coincidence as an opportunity to write a diffuse paean to the Crescent City and her denizens, and incidentally...
...Again, Off-Again Bailout South Korea announced Monday that it had reached agreement with the IMF on a bailout package of more than $50 billion for Seoul?s crisis-ridden economy. Not so fast, said...
DIED. EDDIE ARCARO, 81, masterly jockey whose style, spirit and heritage made him the Joe DiMaggio of his sport; in Miami. Only Arcaro has ridden two Triple Crown winners--Whirlaway (1941) and Citation...
...members of the previous most famous multiple birth in the world, media attention is more likely to be a curse than a blessing. In an open letter to TIME, three of the Dionne quintuplets ? whom the Canadian state put on display in "Quintland" for tourists back in the Depression-ridden ?30s ? warn of the potential freak show to come. "To those who would seek to exploit the growing fame of these children," they write, "we say beware...
...well as in fantasy sequences depicting what Ally is thinking, the show edges toward absurdism. That's fine, but when a whole episode is devoted to the consequences of Ally's argument with a woman over a container of Pringles, it shouldn't climax with a deadly earnest, cliche-ridden feminist speech delivered by Dyan Cannon playing a judge. (In fact, probably no show should ever climax with a deadly earnest, cliche-ridden feminist speech delivered by Dyan Cannon playing a judge...