Word: ripeness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Calif., a string quartet played Bach as 157 men in black tie -- and three elegantly dressed women -- gathered around a long banquet table to indulge in their shared passion. Among them were company presidents, politicians, entertainment celebrities and Marine Corps generals. The champagne, lobster ravioli, rare filet mignon and ripe cheeses they savored were but pleasant distractions from the evening's true purpose. Sealed from the hotel lobby and society's opprobrium beyond, these "lovers of the leaf" were happily turning the air blue with the smoke from their premium cigars...
Exhibit C is Western Europe and Japan after World War II. With devastated economies and disenchanted populations, Western European countries were ripe for Soviet-style revolutions...
...just last week hard-core rapper Ice-T released a debut album with Body Count, the new heavy-metal band he has started. Meanwhile, Little Richard, who has quit the business several times since becoming a Seventh-day Adventist minister 35 years ago, believes the time may be ripe for another comeback. "I've got what it takes to do it," he says. "If they come and make me an offer, I will come and make it in a big way." Sounds like the good times may finally be rolling again...
...only respond that budget and musical talent place no limitation on imaginative and thoughtful interpretation. The difference between the two productions is that Eliot Gardiner, like Peter Shaffer's Salieri, sees a transcendent quality, an absoluteness, in Mozart's music, rather than a mine-field of ambiguities, ripe for exploitation with just the right deconstructive impulse. Granted, ambiguity and equivocation are inevitable as long as we communicate solely in words. But when music is joined to them, absolute, inexpressible meaning is possible. I hope we can still hear...
...course, Parker conveniently ignored why the net was wide open. Before Prendergast made his charge, BU forward Doug Friedman, crossing in front of the net, smashed Harvard goalie Chuckie Hughes to the ice, leaving the Crimson senior stretched out and the net ripe for the picking...