Word: ripely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...monthly installments), despite its substantial price tag, looks like the lowest-budget effort of the lot. All stills, voice-over and grade-school graphics, it is the videotape equivalent of a sales manager's audiovisual presentation. Supermarket Insights does not do full justice to material that is ripe with promise. One recent issue documented the adventures of the Safeway chain in branching, out into "an upscale gourmet food store" (complete with a grand opening at which members of the San Francisco Symphony played chamber music) and scrutinized an enterprising New York retailer who launched an "all-kosher superstore...
...reelection. Dreyfus, whose trademark is a red vest, cited "personal reasons" and constant battles with the Democratic-controlled legislature for his departure from politics. Meanwhile, he promised to devote the final six months to "managing the state in tough economic times." Without Dreyfus in the race, Wisconsin seems ripe for a Democratic victory this year. Contending for the Democratic nomination are former State Legislator Anthony Earl and James Wood, director of the Center for Public Policy in Madison. More significant: so far, no Republicans have stepped forward for the job. That single fact seems to sum up the sense...
...seven newsmen covering the primary. Today, with a thousand journalists on the snowy trail, every candidate is subject to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle: What is being scrutinized is changed by the very scrutiny. Presidential campaigns are now traveling media circuses rather than romantic quests ripe for the retelling. This alteration of campaigns and campaign coverage is the legacy of the maker of the "Making of the Presidents," one Theodore H. White, godfather of modern political reportage...
...deeper problem with Emerson. His voice seemed too rarefied, ethereal to the point of disconnection with reality - and in any case demonstrably incomplete. He seemed almost bizarrely and willfully ignorant about the darker side of things. Henry James put his finger on it with an exquisite condescension: a "ripe unconsciousness of evil ... is one of the most beautiful signs by which we know him." The Candide of Concord...
...single ripe grape...