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...fully control and stifle with accountants. But at the same time the Brill Building-type songwriters for hire, which included some of the finest pop-music talent America ever produced, were still cranking out songs by the yard in a last-gasp bid for teen immortality. The time was ripe for a naïve and yet monstruously successful hybrid, and Bob Rafelson knew...
...would have eaten Probst-burgers if they could decide who got to cook? Would it be Jerri, who's starting to get on Tina's nerves, or Tina, who's really starting to get on mine? Colby was turning cranky, and Kucha, growing fat on chicken-feed popcorn, was ripe for a surprise unraveling. Doritos and Mountain Dew could have made for a dangerous catalyst...
...five years and just like that, everyone says the system needs an overhaul. As much as I hate the Yankees, I don't necessarily think their recent success signifies anything wrong with the system. This past season, the Yankees positively sucked it up during the regular season. They were ripe for the taking in the AL East by anyone who could post a measly 90 wins. New York's ultimate success was due less to their great cash reserves and more to the fact that teams that easily could have ousted them--the Red Sox included--crashed and burned...
...three weeks left in his presidency. He had to scratch a trip to North Korea that might have cemented his foreign policy legacy; missile talks with Pyongyang weren't yet ripe. So Bill Clinton is making one last Hail Mary shot at a Middle East peace deal...
...grew particularly loud. Rehnquist said no. His denial seems anachronistic, but it represents a deep understanding of the modern sensibility. Like Machiavelli, he knows how important an air of mystery is for maintaining authority. And TV's very essence is to demystify. Everything it touches becomes familiar and ordinary, ripe for irony and camp...