Word: ripe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exhibition, De Kooning celebrates woman in huge canvases covered with fierce slashes, stabs, splashes and streams of lush color. His women look as ripe as Tiepolo's baroque matrons, but they are fully clothed and mighty ugly, with ox eyes, balloon bosoms, pointy teeth and vaguely voracious little smiles. He pictures them in no particular setting, but somehow they convey the impression of being terribly tough, big-city, mid-20th-century dames...
Oral Opposition. Before the Communists' invasion of South Korea in 1950, and again during the period when North Korean Reds occupied Seoul, South Korean intellectuals flocked north to the Communists like magpies to a ripe ricefield. For some the change was permanent: they are now entrenched with the Communist government in the north. But a few doubters elected to remain with Rhee's government and see what time would bring. During the past 18 months, those who remained have lost their doubts. In Pusan this week, in a coffee shop lighted by one feebly glowing electric light bulb...
When Asbestoscion Tommy Manville, 58, decided that the time was ripe for his twelfth marriage (this time to Mrs. Lillian Bishop Alvear, 29-year-old divorcee and mother of two children), he found the process getting slightly more difficult. The city clerk in New Rochelle, N.Y. refused to sell him a license; but he was able to buy one in Greenwich, Conn., which requires a five-day wait. Then came bad news from Manhattan. Anita Frances Roddy-Eden Manville, his most recent wife, who bought a Mexican divorce last year, swallowed an overdose of sleeping pills when she heard...
...born, handsome, and intelligent. He has everything, in fact, except a sense of purpose. The narrator is his friend Gus Taylor who, like Nick Carraway in "Gatsby" and Bill King in "Pulham," wanders through an aristocratic group without actually being part of it. His slight detachment from the over-ripe world of his friends provides Gus with both a pinnacle from which to view their fevered, aimless partying, and, ultimately, an escapehatch leading to his own salvation...
...Melancholy anniversary!" commented the conservative newspaper 0 Estado de São Paulo. "After two years Senhor Getulio Vargas still struggles in a vacuum of perplexing inactivity." Said Rio's Correio da Manhã, "The hour is ripe for sinister demagogues...