Word: ripely
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...wood cabinets, a Poland Spring water cooler and a bar-style seating area with funky wood and red fabric stools. In the main lounge area are two couches, some tables, three computers, a circle of swiveling easy chairs, a pool table and a giant-screen TV. The center seems ripe for a party. “The center puts student social life in the center of the department, both literally and figuratively, and that’s a good thing,” Dransfield says...
...what squirmy fun their machinations are to watch. It's hard to think of another filmmaker whose pictures have given so much ripe, intelligent pleasure and are still as fresh as when he concocted them. And what about his rare failures? "Well," as Joe E. Brown says at the end of Some Like It Hot, when told that his fiance is really a man, "nobody's perfect...
...smear campaign against Pickering began with attacks on a three-page law review article he wrote in 1959 (at the ripe age of 21), in which he suggested a way to strengthen Mississippi’s law against interracial marriages. Never mind that shortly thereafter, in the early 1960s, he prosecuted a popular Ku Klux Klan leader and lost re-election because of it. Apparently all that matters is the few hundred words he wrote over 40 years ago. (Advice for Harvard law students: avoid writing, lest someone clobber you over the head with your juvenescent opinions a generation from...
...Beyond the dialogue - so ripe you could squeeze it in a rival's face, like Cagney with a grapefruit - "Sweet Smell" is exemplary for being the very smartest, least preachy expos? on the wages of spin. The film tells us that this, dear ignorant America, is how your entertainment dreams are made: by bartering and bribery. These are the folks to whom you entrust the anointing of the famous: slimes. But slimes with style - for the watchworks of malevolence have their own precision, their own seductive movement. "Sweet Smell" is as much in love as in judgment of the moral...
...capital of Gardez, with 40 Russian tanks rusting outside his window. "Pockets of al-Qaeda from Jalalabad and other places were able to move in with them, so many are there now." Whether or not bin Laden and his top lieutenants are in the region, the known commanders are ripe enough targets. They include Ibrahim Haqqani, whose brother, a Taliban leader sought by the U.S., is thought to be hiding in Pakistan; Latif Mansour, the former Taliban Minister for Agriculture; and Saifur Rahman Mansoor, Latif's nephew, a former Taliban military commander in his early...