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Lighting up a cigarette, the jaunty driver is unusually loquacious about sex as he eyes the dim figures circling the rest stop. Chikoka has parked here for a quickie. See that one over there, he points with his cigarette. "Those local ones we call bitches. They always waiting here for short service." Short service? "It's according to how long it takes you to ejaculate," he explains. "We go to the 'bush bedroom' over there [waving at a clump of trees 100 yds. away] or sometimes in the truck. Short service, that costs you 20 rands [$2.84]. They know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death Stalks A Continent | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

...prostitute, so we will call her Thandiwe. She looked quite prim and proper in her green calf-length dress as she waited for johns outside 109 Tongogaro Street in the center of downtown. So, for that matter, do the dozens of other women cruising the city's dim street corners: not a mini or bustier or bared navel in sight. Zimbabwe is in many ways a prim and proper society that frowns on commercial sex work and the public display of too much skin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death Stalks A Continent | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

...lights went dim, the orchestra played eerie music and Hans and Roiff quizzed Barrymore about past films--including Home Fries and Poison...

Author: By Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hasty Pudding Roasts Drew Barrymore | 2/9/2001 | See Source »

...Abyss, breathing a slurry of oxygenated hydrocarbons. Each breath is positive work, my diaphragm labors draw the viscous fluid into my screaming lungs, then expels it out again through my narrow trachea. I am in a slow-motion free-fall through frigid, silent water, receding from the dim light of the sun as the deep rushes to swallow me. Every moment of descent adds thousands of pounds of water pressure that compress me on all sides, but I am not crushed. I just continue to fall, with no end in sight. I begin to hallucinate...

Author: By B.j. Greenleaf, | Title: The Rack of Reading Period | 1/22/2001 | See Source »

Make Cosmo Village at 29 Margrath Road your first stop. Boasting a full bar and food menu in an atmosphere advertised as "Living Room Dining," the club's cushy couches, dim lighting and lounge chairs provide a mellow start for the evening. The DJ spins acid jazz and trance music, adding to the loungelike feel. The outdoor terrace upstairs is covered, and thanks to Bangalore's temperate climate, it is a breezy spot to people-watch and check out who's going out for the evening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sample the Suds in Bangalore | 1/21/2001 | See Source »

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