Updike can use the `R' word (rape, he meant) to describe the love-making (sic) of the two Brazilians and get away with it.

The Willington Mare, when she started so fast, Ah! we little thought then that the race was her last: Accurst be the stake that was stained with her blood! But, why cry for spilt milk?—May the next be as good.

The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you stay up to date with what your friends are doing,…and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.

Eire - now an oddity rarely used, an out-of-date reference.