Word: ridden
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That may prove easier for Israelis, who at least adhere to democracy, than for the contentious, fractured Palestinians. The P.L.O. has long been strife- ridden, and the news of the secretly negotiated agreement only added to its turmoil. Arafat was harshly chastised for letting the preliminary agreement postpone for five years the all-important resolution of the fate of Israeli settlements, the future of Jerusalem, and Palestinian sovereignty over the occupied territories. In Damascus radical Palestinian leader Ahmad Jibril warned Arafat that he was risking assassination if he went ahead...
...getting around it; David Letterman sounds, well, happy for a change. Or, at least, as happy as an insecure, driven, angst-ridden performer with a pathological fear of failure can be. Certainly no one has more of a right to enjoy himself for a spell. For the past two years, Letterman has been the most wrangled-over, gossiped-about, sought-after star in television. When Jay Leno was chosen to succeed Johnny Carson as host of the Tonight Show, it was Letterman, the disappointed office seeker, who drew the sympathy vote. Last fall, when his contract with NBC was coming...
Daddy Dearest, a slightly smarter sitcom about a psychiatrist whose father moves in with him, might be termed Transitional Fox. Casting angst-ridden comic Richard Lewis as the shrink is the sign of a show aiming for a more adult level of relationship comedy. But pairing him with Don Rickles (who barges into his son's group-therapy session to shout racial insults at everybody) puts us squarely back on the Fox buzz...
Lady Henrietta has an eleven year old daughter, Sara, a flaxen-haired nymphet, determined to seduce Jeremy who is initially attracted to her mother and resolutely determined to ignore Sara's persistent advances. Yet he, after much angst-ridden soul searching, reluctantly succumbs to her charms...
Restic could have ridden his New Age football into the NFL. In 1976, following the second of Harvard's five Ivy titles under Restic, the Philadelphia Eagles knocked on his door, holding out a multi-million dollar contract and the lure of coaching the team for which he had once played (number 82--check your 1953 roster). Restic nearly accepted the offer. The Eagles even called a press conference to announce his hiring. But the lack of talent in the Eagles organization scared...