2020年2月7日 星期五

racked, rack up, swinger, “crowd licentiousness.”, antler, forefront

 

For many fearful Hong Kongers, memories are still fresh of SARS in 2003, a disease caused by another coronavirus discovered on the mainland

  A widening pneumonia outbreak complicates this year's Lunar New Year celebration.

Berkeley Sees a New Spark of Protest

The University of California, Berkeley, once a symbol of student activism in the 1960s, is racked by protests over the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner.


Tiny Patients, Major Goals
By GINA KOLATA
The "mouse hospital" at Beth Israel Deaconess and similar ones elsewhere are at the forefront of a new approach to studying human cancers, namely prostate cancer in men.

Singh’s Case Puts Shortcomings of Tour’s Antidoping Program at Forefront
By KAREN CROUSE
In admitting to the use of deer antler spray, Vijay Singh has unwittingly called attention to the PGA Tour’s antidoping program.

18 Orgies Later, Chinese Swinger Gets Prison Bed
By EDWARD WONG
Ma Yaohai, who arranged group sex encounters in chat rooms, was sentenced to prison for “crowd licentiousness.”

U.S. Consular Aide and Husband Killed in Mexico

President Obama expressed outrage at the “brutal murders” that were apparently carried out by drug traffickers in the violence-racked border town of Ciudad Juárez.


The secret life of America's Bible Belt
Naomi Harris's subjects are not the usual perfected androids who populate contemporary erotica, but ordinary people with extraordinary sex lives; this book explores a rarely-seen side of sex in America. This edition is limited to 1,000 numbered copies, signed by both Naomi Harris and Richard Prince. The cover features a four-color, silk screened, 3-dimensional stamped metal reproduction of a classic American motel sign, specially conceived and created for this edition.

Richard Prince discovered Naomi Harris in TASCHEN's The New Erotic Photography and was so intrigued by her photos of American swingers that he tracked down the 34-year-old New Yorker, determined to make her his protégé.

When he discovered TASCHEN had signed her to do America Swings he asked to do an interview with her, where he reveals part of what makes her work so unique: "When I look at one of your swinger photos what I'm looking at is mostly you 'outside' the picture looking at what you're photographing … half-naked, all naked, taking these photos of next-door neighbors having sex …”

He refers to Harris's secret for winning the confidence of her subjects: To penetrate the world of middle class mate-swapping she had to join them, often working in just shoes and a tool belt to hold her camera gear. Her extreme technique worked so well that in 48 months she was able to photograph 38 parties, crisscrossing the country from Mahwah, New Jersey, to Pleasanton, California; from Big Lake, Minnesota, to Washington, Texas. Her subjects are not the usual perfected androids who populate contemporary erotica, but ordinary people with extraordinary sex lives, including multi-orgasmic schoolteachers, polyamorous nurses, bi-sexual senior citizens and the Mandingos, a group of African-American men who service white wives.






forefront

Pronunciation: /ˈfɔːfrʌnt/

noun

(the forefront)
the leading or most important position or place:the issue has moved to the forefront of the political agenda

swinger

noun [C] OLD-FASHIONED SLANG
either a person who dresses in a fashionable way and who goes to lots of parties and nightclubs, or someone who is willing to have sex often with many different people


rack   
n.
    1. A framework or stand in or on which to hold, hang, or display various articles: a trophy rack; a rack for baseball bats in the dugout; a drying rack for laundry.
    2. Games. A triangular frame for arranging billiard or pool balls at the start of a game.
    3. A receptacle for livestock feed.
    4. A frame for holding bombs in an aircraft.
  1. Slang. A bunk; a bed.
  2. A toothed bar that meshes with a gearwheel, pinion, or other toothed machine part.
    1. A state of intense anguish.
    2. A cause of intense anguish.
  3. An instrument of torture on which the victim's body was stretched.
  4. A pair of antlers.
tr.v., racked, rack·ing, racks.
  1. To place (billiard balls, for example) in a rack.
  2. To cause great physical or mental suffering to: Pain racked his entire body. See synonyms at afflict.  he was racked with guilt
  3. To torture by means of the rack.
phrasal verbs:
rack out Slang.
  1. To go to sleep or get some sleep.
rack up Informal.
  1. To accumulate or score: rack up points.
idiom:
on the rack
  1. Under great stress.
[Middle English rakke, probably from Middle Dutch rec, framework.]
racker rack'er n.


antler
[名](雄ジカなどの)枝角;その分枝.[中フランス語←俗ラテン語*anteoculār(ante前の+oculār眼=眼の前のもの)]ant・lered[形]枝角のある[で飾った].

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