Word: rife
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sake. Opera lore is rife with stories about sopranos whose contracts provide for dressing-room lovers -a stagehand, perhaps, or a house fireman who donates his services for art's sake. Soprano Gemma Bellincioni made no secret of the fact that she made love in her dressing room right before a performance. If she ran overtime-and she often did-her understanding Italian audiences waited patiently. One shapely U.S. lyric soprano was notorious in the 1940s for sabotaging her leading man by seducing him shortly before going onstage; audiences loved her, hated...
...Army, though the Marines have long chafed to get into the Delta action. In any case, the campaign will be no picnic. A steam-hot, table-flat expanse of mangrove swamps and paddy-fields often standing in water up to a man's neck, the Delta is rife with an estimated 80,000 veteran Viet Cong guerrillas...
This scene is regrettably marred beyond redemption by Stephen Joyce, who is woefully miscast and misdirected as Antony. He has intensity, but of an adolescent sort. Supposedly the best orator in a play full of good orators, this Antony afflicts us with an ugly voice and a diction rife with malformed vowels. And when, during a pause, a citizen says, "Now mark him, he begins again to speak," Joyce has not given the slightest hint of intending to resume. This speech--one of the most famous in all literature--is simply a disaster. When it was concluded at the opening...
...York's Democratic chieftains made few headlines last May when they picked Arthur Klein as their candidate for Manhattan surrogate, a job rich in patronage and rife with possibilities of scandal (see THE LAW). In the course of ten years on the State Supreme Court, Democrat Klein, 61, had earned a sound judicial reputation, and as frequently happens in New York, Tammany Boss J. Raymond ("the Fox") Jones and his Republican counterpart agreed to make the judicial nomination bipartisan. Such pacts were originally justified by the argument that they freed judgeships from domination by one party or party boss...
...underlying cause of the trouble is a deficiency in a red-blood-cell enzyme (as complex as its name): glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G-6-PD). And, strangely, a deficiency of G-6-PD is not necessarily bad. It confers a definite survival value in areas where malaria is rife, and it has evolved into a common condition among the peoples of the Mediterranean basin and West African Negroes. But if these malaria survivors take to modern medicine, they often find their enzyme peculiarity a grave liability. Widely prescribed drugs may throw them into a devastating, life-threatening anemia...