Word: debaucher
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...Known locally as the "Wies'n" (after the Theresienwiese, the open area where the festival is held), Oktoberfest is a convivial debauch that sees the consumption of some 6 million liters of beer, 300,000 pork sausages, 600,000 roast chickens and 80 oxen. The revelry takes place in huge marquees, each with its own character, from the backpacker-friendly and decidedly raucous Hofbr?u marquee, to the folksy Augustiner tent?the place to be if you want to see thigh-slapping locals in traditional costume?to the exclusive K?fer enclosure, which is catered by Munich's smartest delicatessen and aimed...
...farmer, he is rooted in cycle. You, you are ill-concerned with repetition, and only aware of some fantastical march, quest, conquest,debauch. And, so you are aware of this manufactured process, and you act upon it. You run as if you were running toward something. But you are only running in circles...
Russia's immediate problem is its currency. The ruble is play money, testimony to John Maynard Keynes' observation that "the surest way" to destroy a government is to "debauch its currency." Thanks to an unrestrained government printing press run by Moscow's central bank (whose chairman is appointed by the parliament Yeltsin doesn't control), the ruble supply has tripled since last July. Now, with the inflation rate approaching 50% a month, no Westerner in his right mind would invest in Russia. For Yeltsin, says Michael Mandelbaum, the Johns Hopkins University professor who wrote the Clinton transition team's Russia...
...staring us in the face. There's always been a market for scary stories and vicarious acts of violence. But true horror can be bloodless, as in Henry James' matchless tale, The Turn of the Screw. Even reckless violence, as in the old-time western, need not debauch the human form. No, if offerings like American Psycho and The Silence of the Lambs have anything to tell us about ourselves, it must be that at this particular historical moment, we have come to hate the body...
...script is almost clinically clear about why the Marquise de Merteuil (Annette Bening) and the Vicomte de Valmont (Colin Firth) embark on a campaign to debauch a 15-year-old virgin, Cecile de Volanges (Fairuza Balk). The older woman is gripped by temporary insanity because she loves the man who intends to marry the adolescent. The vicomte too has his excuses. He is possessed by a passionate nature, the ill effects of which, it is implied, are also temporary. Give the kid some time, and he will probably turn out to be an admirable citizen. Indeed, his second amorous campaign...