Word: brothel
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Thai-Burma border, enduring both disease and terrifying assaults by the Burmese army. Yet, even as enemy mortars explode nearby, Khoo Thwe pores over his treasured copy of The New Oxford Book of English Verse, an anomalous scene he compares to "reading the New Testament in a brothel...
...using child prostitutes is that so many Cambodian men do it, too. Late last year, female parliamentarian Khem Chamroeun pointed her finger around the National Assembly and declared that some of her fellow lawmakers were known to patronize underage prostitutes. No one contradicted her. "A man going to a brothel is the same as going for a beer," says Mu Sochua, the outspoken Minister of Women's Affairs...
...this movie is going to be made, this is how it works.'" His stubbornness has paid off. Kaufman has a say in casting and editing decisions on the movies he owns and is even welcomed on the set, where the screenwriter is usually regarded like a nun in a brothel. And he gets repeat business. Spike Jonze, who directed Malkovich, also directed Adaptation, and Kaufman is working on another movie with Michel Gondry, the director of Human Nature...
...three," answers Mama San. She tells Tip and Lek to fetch their chips. The two tiny figures squatting at her feet jump up, run upstairs and return clutching gambling counters. "What the customers paid," explains Mama San. In the three months since Lek was brought to this back-street brothel in the northern Thai town of Mae Sai, she has collected eight white chips and four blues--equal to $59.50. Tip has done better: her chips add up to $163. "Not a bad little earner," says Mama...
...learn that minutes before the aircraft departed, airport authorities threw Lek and Tip out, presumably for having no ID cards. Days afterward, we make an even more wrenching discovery: the mothers of both girls were in on the deal from the start and had received regular payments from the brothel, which might make an unexpected return home an unhappy occasion...