Word: racks
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...rather strange scene of torture because they're not trying to get any information from him and they don't use any torture devices. It's a spontaneous moment of violence. But in the Restoration time period, from 1660 to 1700, someone must have developed a stage rack because it's all the rage in Restoration dramas--the tragedies and not the comedies. They're filled with scenes where someone will get racked on stage. It's still uncertain exactly when this stage rack came about or who built it, but it appears to be part of a general trend...
...Police removed a bike rack in the road near Currier House...
Ever since Pat Buchanan ran off and joined the Reform Party--that great untethered life raft for political misfits--the Republican Party has been missing a certain something. George W. Bush and John McCain are tediously moderate, and the alternatives have sometimes seemed a self-negating rack of eight balls. But last week, as Orrin Hatch quit, Gary Bauer joined Pat Boone in the Unhip Hall of Fame and Steve Forbes seemed suddenly passe, Alan Keyes was poised to become the new leader of the American fringe...
...salary for someone at Jobs' level would be around $8 million. And given the total value of Jobs' package, which Bassick estimates at around $400 million, he figures Apple's board has paid for 50 years of service. Yet in an era in which fuzzy-cheeked Internet CEOs can rack up $100 million fortunes virtually overnight, how else could a board show its appreciation? Bassick says the jet illustrates a growing problem in today's high-tech world: "How do you motivate somebody who's got everything?" The jet, he admits, "was kind of a creative way of doing that...
...swinging on taxes and Social Security in Thursday night's candidates' debate, his only serious rival for the GOP nomination - Senator John McCain - appeared to be suffering an image meltdown. Even before the debate began, the media had the long-time champion of campaign finance reform on the rack over interventions he made on behalf of his own donors. At issue was a letter the Arizona senator had written, in his capacity as Senate Commerce Committee chairman, urging that the Federal Communications Commission expedite the processing of an application for broadcast licenses by a company owned by Lowell "Bud" Paxson...