Word: ripening
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...days after finally arriving in the capital, he regretted his decision to ripen in the provinces. At a party he met a bubbly gamine named Francoise Rosensthiel. "It was a coup de foudre!" he recalls. "Right away I loved her skin, her way of wearing clothes, her hair, her big freedom, her sweet spirit. Once I was with Francoise, I felt I had wasted time in the South." They are still together, though they have never married...
...drunkenness, "This has made me -- you know -- not as whatever as I usually am." In truth, he is much more whatever than ever. But Burn This prospers more from his talents than it suffers from his excesses, and a surprising number of its seemingly throwaway moments linger and ripen in memory...
...something of a rite of fall. The foliage takes a turn through a magnificent spectrum of red and orange and green. The apples ripen. Students go to Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts to look at the leaves...
...curious how a novel is there waiting to fall off a tree, and you have to be there to catch it," explains Carlos Fuentes, 57, who waited nearly 30 years for The Old Gringo to ripen into his twelfth novel. His patience has paid off. This week, a month after being published in English, it becomes the first novel by a Mexican to be a best seller in the U.S. An imagined tale about a love triangle involving the American writer Ambrose Bierce, Schoolteacher Harriet Winslow and an officer in Pancho Villa's army during the 1910 Mexican revolution, Gringo...
...idealistic young left-wing journalist (Zeljko Ivanek) who argues that the prosperous West must hand over money and power and expect no deference in return, and a lordly novelist (Roshan Seth), Indian by birth but British by choice. He replies that Third World cultures, economies and politics must ripen over time, and that the most the older nations can do to help is to set a rigorous example. The setting for this ambitious exchange is a world conference on hunger being held in Bombay in 1978. By this device, Hare introduces a second spokesman on behalf of the Third World...