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Word: ripely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...marrying this golden girl of leisure Primo has acheived the apex of a working-class dreams he is ripe to be cut down. Bertolucci humbles his but is unable to create a tragic hero out of him, for Primo learns nothing, having known all along that he is slightly ridiculous. From his vantage point at the film's outset--living in an expensive villa modeled after the local medieval fortress--he realizes fully that his social status is out of proportion with hsi real needs. Still, no matter how ludicrous his self-image of the little man thrust into power...

Author: By Clea Simon, | Title: A Pointless Labyrinth | 3/25/1982 | See Source »

Carpio has lived to a ripe old age for a Salvadoran revolutionary mainly because of a fanatical obsession with security. Until recently, he and his closest lieutenants always wore hoods at meetings to hide their real identities even from one another. Carpio was known only by his nom de guerre, Marcial. His daughter Guadalupe, also a Communist organizer, was killed during a political demonstration in El Salvador in 1980. The guerrillas' campaign in El Salvador, Carpio says, "has been a struggle of twelve years. Twelve years of spilling the blood of very valuable comrades, hundreds of the most valuable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Powers That Would Be | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

Roosevelt's contribution to the American political tradition was his willingness to experiment and be creative in addressing the pressing problems of his day. With just such an array of problems demanding response, the time is ripe for the ADA to reaffirm its place in American politics; once again it has the manpower and the money. If the ADA is to succeed, however, it must not hide behind the mantle of Roosevelt but take it proudly, not afraid to dip into the ranks of the intellectuals and come up with new proposals, whether neo-liberal or neo-socialist...

Author: By Lewis J. Liman, | Title: Outdoing Tradition | 3/16/1982 | See Source »

...salt cookery you should use the freshest foods that can be found. There are four vegetables that make an especially fine feast without salt. These are mushrooms, eggplants, really fresh red ripe tomatoes and good-quality onions, white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tips from an Ex-Addict | 3/15/1982 | See Source »

...level, it was a generous and good-neighborly offer to promote prosperity among the almost two dozen diverse countries of the Caribbean Basin. On a more strategic plane, it was designed as a political instrument to deter domestic turmoil in a region ripe for left-wing revolutions. And on its most basic level, Ronald Reagan's Caribbean Basin Initiative, announced amid much fanfare to the Organization of American States last week, is the logical outgrowth of an agonizing yearlong struggle to support the beleaguered current government of El Salvador and draw the line against further expansion of Soviet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We Are All Americans Reagan offers aid and arms to struggling Southern neighbors | 3/8/1982 | See Source »

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