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Word: rackingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...rank among the Moonlight’s most caustic: “And if I see you snooping ’round my farm / I’ll give you a mug of cocoa, then I’ll break your arm / And if I tortured you upon a rack / You wouldn’t say half what you say behind my back / I’m an alien, baby / I’m an outsider, yeah...

Author: By Diane W. Lewis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hitchcock, Soft Boys Still Rock Hard | 4/20/2001 | See Source »

...exclude Waterworld because I actually think it was a darn good movie), even the most forgiving folk promised to boycott all future Costner exercises-in-ego. Which meant, of course, that Thirteen Days, his Cuban Missile Crisis drama which opened in December, tanked miserably and didn’t rack up the acclaim he clearly expected. So Costner railed against American audiences in interviews and decided that the movie was, uh, better suited for Cubans. He took the film to Havana, had a screening of it and smoked cigars with Fidel Castro, and according to one eyewitness...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Soman's In the (K)now: A Pop Culture Compedium | 4/13/2001 | See Source »

Thursday had always promised to be an ordeal. The finish line was in sight, but it was guarded by a grizzly--the non-severability amendment that, if passed, would throw all their hard work in doubt. Throughout the week the bill's opponents watched McCain rack up victories, knowing they had this last weapon. But McCain had 150,000 weapons of his own: e-mail correspondents who were kept abreast of the bill's progress and told which Senate offices to barrage with calls and e-mails. On Thursday they made sure that 20 Senate office switchboards were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Day Dawning | 4/9/2001 | See Source »

Midday is prime time at Fetish Fashion, a masochist's mecca in central Hong Kong, where businessmen take a breather from busy schedules to be spanked, kicked, flogged, sodomized, spat on, stretched on the rack, locked in cages, manacled to crosses, hung upside down in body bags and generally treated like the pigs they are. And they pay big money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tough Love | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...haven't heard them, and I figure if I can sell my old man on recent overlooked albums of genius, he'll spread the word throughout his generation. After years of campaigning for Sonic Youth, I was inordinately proud when their opus Daydream Nation turned up on his CD rack. And when he reacted positively to indie-pop-riot grrrl bands like Cadallaca, I had to crow, father-like, to my friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Your Father Should Know | 2/26/2001 | See Source »

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