Word: ripely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cellist Yo Yo Ma, at the ripe old age of thirty-some-odd years, is already considered one of the greats of the century. Leonard Bernstein, an acclaimed Mahler conductor, recently inaugurated a cycle of that composer's symphonies. Conductor Andre Previn's Rachmaninoff, it is widely said, is the most sumptuous and melancholy. And the list goes...
Remembrance takes place in war-torn Belfast, a setting that would seem to be full of ripe dramatic material about the effect of war on families. Unfortunately, the family relationships in Reid's 1984 play range from the incredibly bland to the inexplicably volatile...
...matter; Jack Higgins' cliches are good fun, and ripe enough to require a ticket taker out front and popcorn in the lobby. "There's only one man for this job," says one master spy. "Only one man capable of playing a Nazi to the hilt and ruthless enough to put a bullet between Kelso's eyes." His subordinate reminds him that "Colonel Martineau was given a definite promise after that business in Lyons that his services wouldn't be required again. His health alone should make it impossible." Says the counterintelligence officer, summing up neatly: "Nonsense, Jack...
...time could not be more ripe. Ronald Reagan, with his sale of arms to Iran, has proven his foreign policy morally bankrupt. He has discredited himself by resorting to underhanded methods of diplomacy devised in the White House basement in order to evade the will of Congress. The forthcoming Tower Commission Report threatens to expose him as a blatant liar What's more the contras themselves are engage in a damaging power struggle which threatens to rip asunder the United Nicaraguan Opposition, as well as the President's policy...
NATION: The State of the Union is vintage Reagan but hardly ripe for the time...