Word: rife
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...arranging merchandise and props in full view of the rest of humanity?" You enter the book with a decided intention to dislike him. But give yourself about five pages, and you will be more than won over, you will want to intern for him-for free. In an atmosphere rife with political correctness, Doonan never veers from the unapologetic identity of, as he puts it confidently, "a pansy." The difficulty of being gay and the terror of possibly dying of AIDS are smothered under the same ecstatic "je ne sais quoi" which spikes his window threatrics...
Sonn claimed that Mandela resolves the contradictions in values rife in the world today...
...history of diet supplements is rife with fads that fizzled or proved dangerous to health. Melatonin, a hormone used to prevent insomnia, became a craze a few years ago, when, on the basis of studies with mice and rats, some researchers hailed it as a miracle cure for aging. But when later reports cast doubt on the findings, sales of melatonin went back to sleep. Last year a tea made from the Chinese kombucha mushroom that was promoted as a remedy for cancer caused four people to be hospitalized for conditions ranging from jaundice to headaches and nausea...
...those who invariably tote around a copy of The Fountainhead--rife with the requisite pithy marginalia--will savor this lecture presented by the Harvard Objectivist Club. Dr. Gary Hull will speak about "Neo-Puritan Assault on Sex and Pleasure"-- offering a wonderfully diametrically alternative to the excessive, hedonistic pleasures of CityStep's Annual Ball. Why would anyone dance the night away in unnecessarily opulent getups when one could consider, instead, "the fusion of Plato, Christianity and Kantian - inspired nihilism"? Gosh...
...Brattle Street is a simple straight-shot and offers a great tour of historic residential Cambridge. Rife with impressive architectural gems, the only bad thing about this pleasant route is the narrow sidewalk which is often impeded by pesky pedestrians (who let them walk here anyway...