Word: rife
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Looking for a way to kill someone? Why stab your better half in the throat when there's USAir? Such playful suggestions are rife throughout the play. Shear Madness constantly reminds us of the funny bits in life and the news. Remember McDonald's $2 million cup of steaming hot coffee? Newt Gingrich's pet name for Hillary Clinton? They live again in Shear Madness...
...already banished his two sons to the Home Theater. They have cranked up the set-top box they got for Christmas. Patch this baby into your HDTV, and you can cruise the Metaverse, wander the Web and choose from among several user-friendly operating systems, each one rife with automatic help systems, customer-service hot lines and intelligent agents. The theater's subwoofer causes our silverware to buzz around like sheet-metal hockey players, and amplified explosions knock swirling nebulas of tiny bubbles loose from the insides of our champagne glasses. Those low frequencies must penetrate the young brain somehow...
...aware most of us (myself included) haven't been able to keep up with the doings of the sports world. The last few weeks have been rife with interesting, nay, bizarre, events from the sporting life...
Camilla Parker Bowles, with whom Britain's Prince Charles has admitted having a longtime affair, today announced that she and husband Andrew Parker Bowles had divorced by mutual consent. Britain is now rife with speculation that Charles, who separated from Princess Diana two years ago, will get a divorce himself to marry the woman he loves -- the very predicament that forced his great uncle, King Edward VIII, to abdicate in 1936. Will it be the lady or the throne?TIME London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrandsays that dilemma won't arise, as the Church of England has relaxed its rules...
...Perot will gladly remind you, that he actually predicted a post-NAFTA peso devaluation. But not this kind of devaluation. In his scenario, a secretly planned devaluation would be triumphantly unveiled -- a wily Latino ploy that by cheapening Mexican goods, would amplify the sucking sound. Reality proved less rife with intrigue than Perot's imagination. Mexico's leaders actually fought devaluation long and hard but were overwhelmed by the skittishness of foreign investors, including their worries about Mexican political turmoil...