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Straight Engines
Straight may refer to: Slang * Straight, slang for heterosexual ** Straight-acting, normal person * Straight, a member of the straight edge subculture Sport and games * Straight, an alternative name for the cross, a type of punch in boxing * Straight, a hand ranking in the card game of poker Places * Straight, Oklahoma, an unincorporated community in Texas County, Oklahoma Media * ''Straight'' (Tobias Regner album), the first album by German singer Tobias Regner * ''Straight'' (2007 film), a German film by Nicolas Flessa * ''Straight'' (2009 film), a Bollywood film starring Vinay Pathak and Gul Panag * "Straight", a song by T-Pain on the 2017 ''Oblivion'' (T-Pain album) * "Straight", a song by A Place to Bury Strangers on the 2015 album ''Transfixiation'' * Straight Records, a record label formed in 1969 * ''The Georgia Straight'' (straight.com), a Canadian weekly newspaper published in Vancouver, British Columbia * ''Straight'', the second autobiography by British artist Boy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heterosexuality
Heterosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction, or Human sexual activity, sexual behavior between people of the opposite sex or gender. As a sexual orientation, heterosexuality is "an enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, and/or sexual attractions" to people of the opposite sex. It "also refers to a person's sense of identity based on those attractions, related behaviors, and membership in a community of others who share those attractions." Someone who is heterosexual is commonly referred to as ''straight.'' Along with bisexuality and homosexuality, heterosexuality is one of the three main categories of sexual orientation within the heterosexual–homosexual continuum. Across cultures, most people are heterosexual, and heterosexual activity is by far the most common type of sexual activity. Heterosexuality has mostly been viewed as the Social norm, normative and most socially dominant form of sexual orientation. Scientists do not know the exact cause of sexual o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Straight Records
Straight Records, self-identified simply as Straight, was a record label formed in 1969 to distribute productions and discoveries of Frank Zappa and his business partner/manager Herb Cohen. Straight was formed at the same time as a companion label, Bizarre Records. Straight and Bizarre were manufactured and distributed in the U.S. by the Warner Bros. Records family of labels, which also included Reprise Records. Straight recordings were distributed in the U.K. by CBS Records. Frank Zappa chose the majority of the artists for the Straight label. His original intention was to release albums by avant-garde artists on Bizarre, and recordings by more mainstream artists on Straight. However the original concept failed to work out as expected due to issues with record distribution and artist management. Frank Zappa, the Mothers of Invention, Wild Man Fischer, and Lenny Bruce certainly fit in at Bizarre, but all others ended up on Straight. This led to some very unusual albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Straight Man
The straight man (or straight woman in the case of female characters), also known as a "comedic foil", is a stock character in a comedy performance, especially a double act, sketch comedy, or farce. When a comedy partner behaves eccentrically, the straight man is expected to maintain composure. The straight man is a foil, a contrasting character to the funny man. The direct contribution to the comedy a straight man provides typically comes in the form of a deadpan. A straight man with no direct comedic role has historically been known as a stooge. Typically, he is expected to feed the funny man lines that he can respond to for laughs (and is hence sometimes known as a feed), while seeking no acclamation for himself. History In vaudeville, effective straight men were much less common than comedians. The straight man's name usually appeared first and he usually received 60% of the take. This helped take the sting out of not being the laugh-getter and helped ensure the straig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Straight (surname)
Straight is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Beatrice Straight (1914–2001), American actress * Dorothy Straight (born 1958), American writer * Henry Harrison Straight (1846–1886), American geologist and professor * Michael Whitney Straight (1916–2004), American magazine publisher and novelist * Nina Auchincloss Straight (born 1935), American writer, journalist and socialite * Susan Straight (born 1960), American writer * Whitney Willard Straight (1912–1979), American-born British Grand Prix driver and aviator * Willard Dickerman Straight (1880–1918), American investment banker * Alvin Straight (1920–1996), an American man who famously traveled 240 miles (390 km) on a riding lawn mower to visit his ailing brother See also *George Strait George Harvey Strait Sr. (born May 18, 1952) is an American country music singer, songwriter, actor, and music producer. Strait has sold over 120 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-sell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Straight (racing)
{{about, the element of a track, , Straight (other) In many forms of racing, a straight or stretch is a part of the race track in which the competitors travel in a straight line for any significant time, as opposed to a bend or curve. The term is used in horse racing, motor racing and track and field athletics. In athletics, a typical 400 m track features two straights and two bends. The final straight before the finish line is known as the home straight, or the pit straight in Formula One, while the other is known as the back straight. In motor racing, both the pit lane and finish line are often located on the longest straight on the circuit. Notable exceptions are the 6 km Mulsanne Straight at Le Mans, which is at the opposite side of the circuit; and at the Silverstone Circuit Silverstone Circuit is a motor racing circuit in England, near the Northamptonshire villages of Silverstone and Whittlebury. It is the home of the British Grand Prix, which it first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Straightedge
A straightedge or straight edge is a tool used for drawing straight lines, or checking their straightness. If it has equally spaced markings along its length, it is usually called a ruler. Straightedges are used in the automotive service and machining industry to check the flatness of machined mating surfaces. They are also used in the decorating industry for cutting and hanging wallpaper. True straightness can in some cases be checked by using a laser line level as an optical straightedge: it can illuminate an accurately straight line on a flat surface such as the edge of a plank or shelf. A pair of straightedges called winding sticks are used in woodworking to make warping easier to perceive in pieces of wood. Three straight edges can be used to test and calibrate themselves to a certain extent, however this procedure does not control twist. For accurate calibration of a straight edge, a surface plate must be used. Compass-and-straightedge construction An idealized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Straight Whiskey
Straight whiskey (or straight whisky), as defined in United States law, is whiskey that is distilled from a fermented (malted or unmalted) cereal grain mash to a concentration not exceeding 80% alcohol by volume (abv) and aged in new charred oak barrels for at least two years at a concentration not exceeding 62.5% at the start of the aging process. Domestic sales of straight whiskey surpassed 27 million 9-liter cases in 2021. The only allowed modifications to straight whiskey prior to its bottling consist of batching whiskey from different barrels (and sometimes from different distilleries, although only from within the same state), chill filtering the whiskey, and adding water to reduce proof while retaining at least a 40% abv concentration. This definition is established for production of American whiskey for consumption within the United States as per the U.S federal ''Standards of Identity for Distilled Spirits''. The regulations do not necessarily apply to American whisk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boy George
George Alan O'Dowd (born 14 June 1961), known professionally as Boy George, is an English singer-songwriter and DJ who rose to fame as the lead singer of the pop band Culture Club. He began his solo career in 1987. Boy George grew up in Eltham and was part of the New Romantic movement which emerged in the late 1970s to early 1980s. His androgynous look and style of fashion was greatly inspired by glam rock pioneers David Bowie and Marc Bolan. He formed Culture Club with Roy Hay (musician), Roy Hay, Mikey Craig and Jon Moss in 1981. The band's second album, ''Colour by Numbers'' (1983), sold more than 10 million copies worldwide. Their hit singles include "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me", "Time (Clock of the Heart)", "I'll Tumble 4 Ya", "Church of the Poison Mind", "Karma Chameleon", "Victims (song), Victims", "Miss Me Blind", "It's a Miracle (Culture Club song), It's a Miracle", "The War Song", "Move Away" and "I Just Wanna Be Loved". Boy George was the lead singer of Jesus Loves ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Georgia Straight
''The Georgia Straight'' is a free Canadian weekly news and entertainment newspaper published in Vancouver, British Columbia, by Overstory Media Group. Often known simply as ''The Straight'', it is delivered to newsboxes, post-secondary schools, public libraries and a large variety of other locations. ''The Straight'' has a long history of independent, unconventional editorials and content, and is known as a vocal critic of government, notably the former Liberal government of Gordon Campbell. As surveyed by VAC its per-issue circulation average , was once 119,971 copies, and its average weekly readership was once 804,000 . Its website traffic once ranked 92,215 globally and 5,395 within Canada, from Alexa. In January 2020, the newspaper's acquisition by Media Central Corporation was announced, a few weeks after the same company announced a deal to acquire the similar Toronto publication '' Now''. In September 2022, after Media Central Corporation filed for bankruptcy, ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transfixiation
''Transfixiation'' is the fourth studio album by the American noise rock band A Place to Bury Strangers, released February 17, 2015, by Dead Oceans. Singles and music videos The album was preceded by the singles "Straight", released November 19, 2014, and "We've Come So Far", released January 14, 2015. Both songs received music videos: the video for "Straight" was released December 6, 2014, directed by Brook Linder, and features a TV station's signal being hijacked in order to display "a nightmare of analog psychedelia and haunted pop culture imagery", inspired by the Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion of 1987. The "We've Come So Far" video was released February 19, 2015, and contains footage of the last show at Williamsburg, Brooklyn Williamsburg is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, bordered by Greenpoint to the north; Bedford–Stuyvesant to the south; Bushwick and East Williamsburg to the east; and the East River to the west. It was an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Straight-acting
''Straight-acting'' is a term for LGBT individuals who do not exhibit the typical appearance or mannerisms of what is seen as stereotypically gay. Although the label is used by and reserved almost exclusively for gay and bisexual men, it may also be used to describe lesbian or bisexual women exhibiting a typically feminine appearance and mannerisms. Since the term invokes negative stereotypes of gay people, its application is often controversial and may cause offense. An alternative term for men is simply ''masculine''. Proposed explanations and criticisms Communication scholar Shinsuke Eguchi and Tim Berling proposed that sissyphobia – stigmatization of or discrimination against effeminate men (not restricted to gay men) – explained the emergence of the straight acting phenomenon in 2009. Sex advice columnist Dan Savage commented on the popularity of the term "straight-acting" in gay personal ads, criticizing both the practice and the idea that a man seeking a gay relatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
