Word: rife
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...simply dropped into the middle of events without preparation or explanation, alienating them from the start. As a result, enjoyment of the novel will increase exponentially with increased knowledge of the Transformers world. In all fairness, the Transformers continuity has had twenty years to develop a rich backstory, often rife with internal contradictions. Recounting the whole of it might well have consumed the better part of _Eugenesis_'s 560 pages. Still, the novel would have benefited tremendously from the inclusion of an (Optimus) primer on the world of the Transformers...
ANTIBALAS AFROBEAT ORCHESTRA. This 14-musician musical group performs ethnic fare rife with boisterous horns and polyrhythmic beats. The ethnically diverse group includes Latinos, whites, Afro-Americans, Africans and Asian-Americans; they perform songs in Spanish, Yoruba and English. Saturday, Feb. 14 at 10:30 p.m. Tickets $12/15 day of show, 21+. The Original House of Blues, 96 Winthrop...
...Onyekwe and Archibong had quiet nights inside while Harvard scrambled to keep up with a Penn lineup rife with shooters. Archibong made more noise with his pair of second half three-pointers than he did at any point in the paint...
Raised in Baltimore, the son of an auto body-shop owner, Palmisano grew up in a big, solidly middle-class, Catholic family, learning the ways of the world at an early age from his grade-school classmates, some of whose fathers in the rough, corruption-rife port city were being indicted for various crimes...
...Anti-American sentiment is rife in South Korea today, and as Roh, 56, prepares to move into the Blue House next February for a five-year presidential term, a sea change in U.S.-South Korean relations appears to be under way. In his first postvictory public utterances, the President-elect said he wants South Korea to be treated as an equal by the U.S., not as a ward. And despite his lack of foreign-policy experience, he made it clear that his incoming administration will not defer to the U.S. on North Korean diplomacy. "The traditional friendship and alliance between...