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Word: babylon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...kidding? Bring on the gaudy Babylon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At the Gates of Gaming's Babylon | 5/16/2001 | See Source »

...Babylon is packed with babies, sexy Shanghai babies. Tonight and every night, Fifi knows she's the sexiest of them all. As the strobe lights flicker and the bass throbs at this Shanghai nightclub, all eyes are on her. Fifi's eyes search the crowd, too, wandering up and down men's bodies, looking for the perfect one. But right now, Fifi is dissatisfied with what she sees. She pouts her bubble-gum pink lips and frowns. "There's nobody here tonight," she says. "Nobody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...give Babylon an hour, and the techno-trance music has lured some newcomers. So Fifi hits the dance floor, her body uncoiling like a python's. Fifi dances to be watched and when she feels a pair of approving eyes on her, she swings her body ever so slowly, then gyrates faster and faster until she's whirling like an oversexed dervish. When she finally tapers to a halt, she looks up and hopes those eyes are still on her. If they are, she starts grinding her hips again, faster and faster until she's moving quicker than the boom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...game is at its most frenzied at Babylon. The man by the pillar smiles hesitantly at Fifi. She grins back, pops a mint and slinks on over. They mouth words to each other, not that they can really hear over the techno din. He says he works for a financial company. She says she owns stocks. Pretty soon he's got his hand on the small of her back and is drawing her closer. When he reaches over and nuzzles her neck, she closes her eyes and leans her head back. But only for a moment. Soon, she opens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...strobe exposes the girls for what they really are. The flashes of harsh, white light strip Fifi's face of her makeup - and her contrivance. In that freeze-frame instant, Fifi isn't a sexy sophisticate, just an innocent girl searching for love. In a place called Babylon, where Shanghai babies pretend to be women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

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