Word: ripely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...literally blow him to bits by holding on long enough--a good little shock. Similar techniques were featured in George Romero's Dawn of the Dead and Brian De Palma's The Fury. The latter used the effect most spectacularly, with ten camera angles, when John Cassavettes turned to ripe tomatoes all over the dining room walls. But Cronenberg is a terrible director when it comes to shocks and thrills. He uses this effect once--at an anticlimactic moment, thus short-changing core fiends and shock jocks...
Social Security Disability Insurance.Costs of this program have soared from $2.3 billion in 1970 to a projected $19 billion in 1982, and it is ripe for curtailment. Nearly 3 million Americans now draw benefits because they are officially classified as disabled and therefore unable to work. Yet many continue to draw benefits after they have recovered from their ailments. The General Accounting Office estimated in January that up to 584,000 people who are "not currently disabled" still get some $2 billion a year in insurance payments. Reagan has proposed to remove ineligibles from the rolls...
During the progress of Sutherland's affair with the suitably under-ripe beauty of Blanche Baker's Lolita, Albee's penchant for moralizing asserts itself, as though, to make up for his exploitation of this theme, he decides the audience must be scolded for its interest. He chooses a moral that seems both believable, and indeed, close to Nabokov's own intentions in Lolita: Humbert's love for Lolita is the futile dream of a man doomed to try to recapture his own lost past. But Albee's Nabokov character must trudge to center-stage and tell us all this...
...long called for an end to the crisis but now denounced the deal with Washington as a humiliating national sellout. In the wings lingered Iran's pro-Moscow Communists, temporarily in league with the right-wing mullahs but waiting for economic and political chaos to make the country ripe for a Soviet-sponsored takeover...
With exams over and the women's Beanpot and Ivy Tournaments just a few weeks away, the time is ripe for the Crimson to pull together for a big win and a strong season finish. If the skaters capitalize on their speed in both skating and passing, if the forwards flex their sluggish offensive muscle, and if Yardling Cheryl Tate maintains her hot performances in the nets, Harvard can--and just might--upset Northeastern tonight. Remember, Bright Center...