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Bright Lights, Big City, Niche Fame

Kaitlin Phillips, an infamous Lower Manhattan publicist, has tried creating the kind of coolly off-kilter, exclusive scene that once defined parts of the city.

A video of the mother of eight with a chain around her neck sparked massive anger online when it emerged online two weeks ago.
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China claims arrests of human traffickers in chained woman case






The Theatre
Two Musicals on the Perils of Aging

A buoyant revival of Sondheim’s “Company” and the refreshingly off-kilter “Kimberly Akimbo.”



Latin America Leads Way in Decriminalizing Drugs
By Alfonso Serrano
Even as Latin American countries are at the forefront of the war against narcotraffickers, they are also pushing alternative strategies

Sex Life Was ‘Out of Step,’ Strauss-Kahn Says, but Not Illegal
By DOREEN CARVAJAL and MAÏA de la BAUME 2:23 PM ET

Dominique Strauss-Kahn is seeking to throw out charges in an inquiry into ties to a French prostitution ring, arguing that the authorities are trying to “criminalize lust.”

Regulators in charge of writing the Volcker Rule, which would ban banks from trading with their own money, were inundated with complaints and suggestions on Monday, the deadline to comment on a draft proposal. More than 200 letters were expected to be filed by the midnight deadline on the rule, which regulators outlined in October.

Under a skylight in her tin-ceilinged loft near Union Square in Manhattan, the abstract painter Carmen Herrera, 94, nursed a flute of Champagne last week, sitting regally in the wheelchair she resents.

Fake medicines inundate EU market
The EU's outgoing industry commissioner warns that the bloc has been swamped by spurious pharmaceutical products. Guenter Verheugen is calling for steps that will criminalize offenses and protect potential victims.

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A Year After a Cataclysm, Little Change on Wall St.
By ALEX BERENSON A regulatory overhaul of the financial industry faces difficulty in Congress, but unless the industry’s risks are addressed they could cause an even bigger crisis.

The Vertigo Years: Europe 1900-1914
By Philipp Blom


IMAGINE, suggests Philipp Blom, that a “voracious but highly selective plague of bookworms” had deprived us of all knowledge of 20th-century history after 1914. How would the early years of the last century look when taken on their own, rather than overshadowed by the cataclysm of the first global war?


But when dizziness, vertigo or loss of balance is neither self-imposed nor short lived, it is anything but fun. It can throw one’s whole life out of kilter, literally and figuratively.


Kevin Spacey gives a beat-the-clock performance in this off-kilter revival, which also stars Eve Best in a commanding Broadway debut.

Frick Collection, New York

Memling was adept at both types, religious and secular. In one of the earliest paintings at the Frick, a devotional panel dated 1472, a middle-aged man, presumably the patron, kneels before the Virgin and Child in a regally appointed room. The motif, which had been a van Eyck specialty, was a favorite in Bruges. Memling tinkered with it a bit - pushed the figures off-kilter, and so on - but left the model essentially as he found it, as he did, for better or worse, with many of the pictorial conventions he inherited.

trafficker

/ˈtrafɪkə/

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noun

plural noun: traffickers

1. a person who deals or trades in something illegal.

   "a convicted drug trafficker"

kilter
noun INFORMAL ━━ n. 好調.
out of kilter in a state of not working well:
Missing more than one night's sleep can throw your body out of kilter.

vertigo 
noun [U]
a feeling of spinning round and being unable to balance, caused by looking down from a height:
She can't stand heights and has always suffered from vertigo.

vertiginous 
adjective FORMAL
causing or experiencing the feeling that everything is spinning round:
The two skyscrapers were connected by a vertiginous walkway.

Mystery Monday: most of you will know where this photo was taken, but do you know what this walkway is called, and why?

cataclysm

n.

1. A violent upheaval that causes great destruction or brings about a fundamental change.
2. A violent and sudden change in the earth's crust.
3. A devastating flood.

[French cataclysme, from Latin cataclysmos, deluge, from Greek kataklusmos, from katakluzein, to inundate : kata-, intensive pref.; see cata– + kluzein, to wash away.]

cataclysmic cat'a·clys'mic (-klĭz'mĭk) or cat'a·clys'mal (-klĭz'məl) adj.
cataclysmically cat'a·clys'mi·cal·ly adv.


inundate, (ĭn'ŭn-dāt', ĭn'ən-)
inundate
tr.v., -dat·ed, -dat·ing, -dates.

1. To cover with water, especially floodwaters.
2. To overwhelm as if with a flood; swamp: The theater was inundated with requests for tickets.

[Latin inundāre, inundāt- : in-, in; see in-² + undāre, to surge (from unda, wave).]

inundation in'un·da'tion n.
inundator in'un·da'tor n.
inundatory in·un'da·to'ry (-də-tôr'ē, -tōr'ē) adj.

inundate[in・un・date]

• 発音記号[ínəndèit | ínʌn-]

[動](他)((主に受身))

1 …に殺到する；〈場所を〉（人・物で）あふれさせる, 〈人に〉わんさと与える((with ...))

People inundated the employment office with job applications.
職業紹介所に人々の求職申し込みが殺到した.

2 ((形式))〈水が〉…に氾濫(はんらん)する, …を（…で）水浸しにする((with ...))

be inundated with a high seas
高波で浸水する.

［ラテン語inundātus （in-上に＋unda波＋-ATE¹＝波が上にくる）. △UNULATE］