Word: ripe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...marina fills seven acres, more or less, of this point of land, and even the most sentimental observer can see that it is a piece of property "ripe for development." It is humble, but every winter it was home to about 120 boats. The wooden docks were lined with boxes full of tomato and lettuce plants. Bicycles, with the chrome abandoned to rust, stood unlocked next to supermarket baskets painted to match the vessels they served. Boats with some chance of being called yachts were berthed on A and B docks. The people tied up inside the piers next...
...almost comical institution of separate shop doorways for Black and white customers, but Black unemployment rates that virtually preclude a Black consumer class altogether. Not the lack of swimming pools in the Black ghetto of Soweto, but a "homelands" policy that ensures a mass migratory labor system ripe for exploitation. Real apartheid is the Black miner who works hundreds of miles from his family, the "Coloured" woman who is forcibly evicted from neighborhood by the so-called Department of Community Development, the white farmer who is harassed by white vigilantes for sharing his earnings with his Black farmhands...
...years, there were other distractions such as the Core and the Harvard Campaign. It's overdue, and the time is ripe," said History Department Chairman John Womack...
...warm and sweet--warm, sweet/ Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suite") with the blistering bitterness of Evita. Andersson and Ulvaeus' score ransacks melodic styles from plainsong to Puccini to Gilbert and Sullivan to Richard Rodgers to Phil Spector to hip-hop, in a rock- symphonic synthesis ripe with sophistication and hummable tunes. The Shubert Organization's Bernard Jacobs, a man not easily given to rapture, says, "Very few scores prior to production have excited me as much as this one. None, in fact, since My Fair Lady...
...cast does an excellent job of conveying Hitchcock's message that in the isolating circumstances of modern society ideas can easily flourish into ideologies, dangerously ripe for adoption by a disturbed individual. In Rope, the philosophy of an intellectual, Rupert Cadell (Mark Dolan), that the privileged few have the right to commit murder is adopted up by the deeply emotionally and intellectually insecure Brandon (Cyres Sanal). Brandon assuming he is one of the privileged few, sets out to test Rupert's philosophy by attempting to carry off the perfect murder. He kills a Harvard graduate (David) and has a party...