Word: rackingly
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...cheese, and 1,000 pints of cream to feed the guests and their legions of attendants. The menu for the main banquet was up to the occasion: quail eggs stuffed with caviar (the only Iranian dish on the menu); a mousse of crayfish tails in Nantua sauce; stuffed rack of roast lamb and, as a main course, a traditional medieval dish: roast peacock stuffed with foie gras. For dessert there was a ring of figs with raspberries in the center, champagne sherbet and mocha coffee. There was also a 33-kg. cake to mark Farah's 33rd birthday, which...
...partly on the Shelley tragedy, it tells how a young Roman noblewoman (Soprano Arlene Saunders) is seduced by her choleric, morally corrupt father. Count Francesco Cenci (Bass-Baritone Justino Díaz), then revenges herself by arranging his murder. In the end, she is found out, tortured on the rack, beheaded. Not a libretto to every composer's taste, naturally, but just the thing for the savage, harshly dissonant musical style already familiar , from Ginastera's equally grim Don Rodrigo and Bomarzo...
...envy as a judgment. When his entanglement with Harry lands him in the dock at the Old Bailey-wrongly accused of bizarre sexual offenses against a German au pair girl-he acquiesces in society's right to demand an accounting from him. To him, the trial is the rack on which his way of life is stretched out for examination...
...brute Brute heart of a brute like you." When her square boyfriend, Buddy Willard, takes down his pants for her benefit she says, "The only thing I could think of was turkey gizzards and I felt depressed." Hating her virginity she gets a man to give her the rack and the screw and hemorrhages violently. Her suicides are novel...
...rack themes, a buyer with the money first checks topics in stock, then tells his instructor that he has "chosen" to "write" about one of them. Up-to-date offerings include "Black American Heroes," "Nixon's Influence on the 1970 California Election," "Problems and Possible Solutions to Air Pollution." One service cheerfully composed a theme titled "Why I Wouldn't Use a Professional Term Paper Writing Service...