Word: ripely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year-old master, determines to revive him using a microwave and a toaster. FRANKENWEENIE sounds like pure Tim Burton, and it is. The 27-min. Disney comedy, made in 1984 and now released as a home video, marked the debut of the director of the Batman blockbusters. This ripe tale has intimations of Burton's Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands: the undead and a wild child sundered in suburbia. But Burton's Batmanic surrealism is plenty evident here. The pet cemetery is adorned with fire-hydrant and dog-biscuit tombstones, and the community unites to hot-wire the dead-again pooch...
...placid town of Janesville, Wis. (est. pop. 52,000), never asked for a Ku Klux Klan rally. But the Klan considered the town, perched on the Rock River, ripe for recruits. So there in the middle of Rockport Park stood a massive burlap-wrapped, kerosene-soaked cross surrounded by Klansmen, and even a few Klanswomen, their robes billowing in the soft breeze. The loud twang of country music mixed with the angry chants of protesters jousting with police a few hundred yards away: "Death to the Klan...
...daring villain: the Penguin (Danny De Vito). He is a vicious troll with a righteous grudge: his rich parents dumped him in the sewer when they saw he had flippers for hands. Now he wants to be loved and, even more, elected -- mayor of Gotham City. In DeVito's ripe performance, Penguin is a creature of Dickensian rhetoric, proportions and comic depth...
GEORGE BUSH TURNS 68 ON JUNE 12. A RIPE AGE -- THOUGH he does not yet seem to be a senior citizen, or even a Gray Panther. He's fighting it. "I don't feel old," he says. "I feel young. I feel competitive. I'm ready to charge. I still go to work at 5 a.m. and stay late. I don't get a lot of sleep. I'm not slowing down. Once in a while I get grumpy, but no more than usual...
...debate are the tropical rain forests -- and a fundamental difference in how each side sees them. To industrial countries they are a treasure trove of biodiversity and greenhouse-gas "sinks" that absorb CO2 and thus help keep global warming in check. To developing nations the forests are resources ripe for exploitation: potential farmland, a free source of fuel and a storehouse of exotic kinds of wood that command high prices overseas...