Less sex and more tourists mean less kinky toys, more gourmet meals.
The club’s clientele is diverse, including workaday salarymen, business owners and other men unwinding after work.
PepsiCo announced early Monday that it is offering to buy the shares in its two main bottlers that it does not already own for about $6 billion, in an unwinding of its decade-long strategy of separating bottling from its main soft-drink business.
The Reckoning
A Champion of Wall St. Reaps the Benefits
Shawn Thew/European Pressphoto Agency
Senator Charles Schumer meeting with Neel T. Kashkari, center, the official in charge of the $700 billion federal bailout.
In Washington, Senator Charles E. Schumer is beneficiary, advocate and overseer of an industry that is his hometown’s most important business.
Schumer's Stands
The Man Who Is Unwinding Lehman Brothers
A 75-year-old lion of the bankruptcy bar, Harvey R. Miller has been consumed by the largest corporate liquidation in U.S. history.
Lawyer Seen as Bold Enough to Cheat the Best of Investors
Authorities say that Marc S. Dreier, one of New York’s most accomplished lawyers, brazenly swindled the city’s savviest investors, in a fraud estimated at $380 million.
Nascar’s Sponsors, Hit by Sticker Shock
Nascar, which relies on corporate sponsorships more than other sports, is particularly vulnerable in an economic crisis.
Economic View
To Build Confidence, Aim for Full Employment
If the new president had a target of full employment, and if Americans believed that he could reach it, the confidence problem could be quickly solved.
Asian Leaders Focus on Growth at 3-Nation Summit Meeting
The leaders of China, Japan and South Korea held their nations’ first joint summit meeting, which focused on a joint Asian response to the global economic crisis.
Slipstream
A Software Secretary That Takes Charge
A new generation of Internet technologies is making meaningful progress in anticipating your needs without you pressing a key.
Digital Domain
Advertisers Face Hurdles on Social Networking Sites
Web advertising experts see a myriad of difficulties in making brand advertising work on social networking sites.
Everybody’s Business
Before the Fear, There Was Foolishness
Before the credit crisis, lenders lent with unimaginable foolishness and made incredibly risky bets. And the bets busted.
Measuring the Shock Waves in Bond Funds
Many middle-of-the-road bond mutual funds that seemed to promise stable returns in a difficult market have recently taken gut-wrenching plunges.
The Feed
Wait. Why Is the F.T.C. After Whole Foods?
The F.T.C. once feared Whole Foods would dominate the market for organics. Now, that looks unlikely.
New Jersey
The Divorced Find a Housing Niche
New complexes offer tenants the ability to sign a lease for any time period 30 days or longer, and move in within 48 hours.
Week 52: What Sense Does It Make?
This year, the week between Christmas and New Year, a week that is usually just carefree and unproductive, is likely to be positively dead.
From Week in Review and Sunday Magazine
Health care and the economy share a sickbed. Barack Obama placed a heavy bet last week that they can recover together.
earth (SUBSTANCE)
noun [U]
the usually brown, heavy and loose substance of which a large part of the surface of the ground is made, and in which plants can grow; the land surface of the Earth rather than the sky or sea:
The ploughed earth looked rich and dark and fertile.
See also earthen.
earthy
adjective
like or relating to earth:
an earthy smell
Trend-Setting sounds from North America's Native People
Earthy music, roots or world music? The music of North America's native peoples remains mysterious and difficult to grasp. But indigenous music (as Native Americans themselves call it) plays a vital role in that continent's music scene. Contemporary indigenous music has little to do with traditional chanting and earthy sounds but instead - versatile, innovative and full of talent - is moving in a very modern direction. Its popularity has grown steadily over the past years. Melanie Aberle, who compiled this half hour in Toronto, traces new developments in native American music in good part from a Canadian perspective.
The dining room of one of them, Laris, is drenched in white - white marble, white tablecloths, white orchids. "The food and clients provide the color here," said the man at its helm, David Laris, formerly chef at Mezzo in London. As befits someone of Greek ancestry, he serves great fish, including raw oysters from three continents, scallops with basil and Kalamata olives, and a fabulously earthy cauliflower and caviar soup, not unlike the brew served by Jean Joho in Chicago.
earthy
adjective
referring to sex and the human body in a direct way:
She has an earthy sense of humour.
Compare earthy at earth (SUBSTANCE).
A Picasso play also attracted attention, not to say notoriety. It was "Desire Caught by the Tail," which he had written in three days on a sickbed in 1941. It was produced privately in Paris three years later with a cast that included the playwright, Simone de Beauvoir, Valentine Hugo, Albert Camus, Raymond Queneau and Jean-Paul Sartre. The main prop was a big black box that served as a bed, bathtub and coffin for the two principal characters, Fat Anxiety and Thin Anxiety. The play's action was earthy.
When "Desire" was commercially staged in St. Tropez in 1967, it aroused protests even in that resort town's atmosphere of tolerance. The objection was that some of the characters were expected to urinate on stage. Although this did not take place, the play was thought overly suggestive.
earthiness
noun [U]
I like the earthiness of her writing.
ver・sa・tile
━━ a. 多芸［多才］の, 多方面の; 用途の広い; 変りやすい, 気まぐれな.
ver・sa・tile・ly ━━ ad.
ver・sa・tile・ness ━━ n.
ver・sa・til・i・ty
ver・sa・tile・ly ━━ ad. ver・sa・tile・ness ━━ n. ver・sa・til・i・tysickbed
noun [C]
the bed of a person who is ill:
We visited my grandmother on her sickbed.
verb [I or T] unwound, unwound
If you unwind something that is wrapped around an object, you unfasten it, and if it unwinds, it becomes unfastened:
In a nearby medical tent, a US Army doctor gently unwinds Metruk's bandage.
unwind (RELAX) (unwound, unwound) verb [I] (ALSO wind down)
to relax and allow your mind to be free from anxiety after a period of work or some other activity that has made you anxious:
A glass of wine in the evening helps me to unwind after work.v., -wound (-wound'), -wind·ing, -winds. v.tr.
- To reverse the winding or twisting of: unwind a ball of yarn.
- To separate the tangled parts of; disentangle.
- To free (someone) of nervous tension or pent-up energy.
- To become unwound.
- To become free of nervous tension; relax: liked to unwind with a cocktail before dinner.
kinky
ˈkɪŋki/
adjective
- 1.informalinvolving or given to unusual sexual behaviour.
- 2.having kinks or twists.
n.
- The clients of a professional person or practice considered as a group.
- A body of customers or patrons: a restaurant's clientele.
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