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...marketing experts have their own theories about why people want to sink so much money into the soil. A garden is certainly a nice thing to have, a place to unplug from a bruising, harried world into someplace ripe and unwired. For cocooning boomers, gardening presents the perfect stay-at-home hobby. It's environmentally correct, medically sound, and promises a nice return on investment. When a Bel Air, California, replica of Versailles, built for $8.1 million, sat on the soft housing market for years, the bank that repossessed it hired garden designer Eric Solberg...
...immediate wake of the Kent State deaths, college campuses across the country seemed ripe for more violence between students and police...
...though, the future "savior'' began to find his niche. He set up a yoga school that proved to be quite successful. Even if a former student recalls that in those days "we were not followers but members," the time was ripe for gurus. Japan's galloping economic miracle in the 1970s and '80s also spawned a boom in "new religions" offering spiritual refuge to Japanese alienated by materialism. Asahara's messianic self-image expanded to help fill this void. After a visit to a Himalayan retreat, he boasted of having achieved satori, the Japanese term for nirvana or enlightenment...
...late 1950s, and Benny (really Bernadette) Hogan (Minnie Driver), a plain, awkward girl from a small village, is ripe for a coming-of-age experience. Going off to college with her lifelong friends Nan (Saffron Burrows) and Eve (Geraldine O'Rawe) is just the thing. On the very first day, she meets Jack Foley (Chris O'Donnell), who enters with a caress from the camera that practically screams "love interest." Sure enough, Jack falls for Benny, preferring her to the beautiful but cold Nan and the charming, impish Eve. Benny's own characteristic--in this movie, nobody has more than...
...anathema to most politicians to say so, among the scholars and policy analysts who study the budget charts and chew their nails in suspense as the baby boomers inch toward later life, the verdict is just about unanimous: as Social Security nears its 60th birthday, it is ripe for retirement...