Word: ripely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fruit vendors sell ripe pears and grapes to grateful Moscovites out of the back of trucks and cars. Suddenly, police officers appear from the Office of the Division for the Struggle Against the Theft of Socialist Property (OBKhSS). The vendors are arrested for selling state property. Their goods are confiscated...
...this time of year, fields in the Imperial Valley, which straddles the California-Mexico border, should be bursting with ripe melons ready for shipment to markets around the U.S. Instead, 95% of the fall crop has been lost and much of the rest lies rotting on the vine. Harvests of lettuce, broccoli, cauliflower, squash, citrus fruits, table grapes, sugar beets, carrots and cabbages are threatened as well. Total crop losses in Imperial County and nearby Riverside County have already reached $90 million. Says melon grower Ben Abatti, who has been farming in the area since 1956: "It is total disaster...
...FISHER KING. Trust director Terry Gilliam (Brazil) to hatch the year's most exasperatingly good movie, in which Robin Williams is a holy homeless fool and Jeff Bridges a burned-out case ripe for redemption. To catch the brilliant bits in this handsome botch, you need patience and daring; it's like finding gold nuggets strewn across a minefield...
Sensing the time is ripe for a major mujahedin offensive, the U.S., Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have reportedly given the go-ahead to the guerrillas. Renewed military pressure on his already demoralized forces could soon add Najibullah to the list of victims of the Soviet putsch...
...altered his oddball life. A scientific cross pollinator, Mullis, 46, may be the last of the great tinkerers. His passions include cosmology, mathematics, artificial intelligence, virology, chemistry, hallucinogenics, photography and women who are 10,000 days old. At that age, about 28, "they're like a ripe avocado," says the thrice-married inventor...