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...here's the weird part: Once I have established that the little tot is not on the brink of petering out, I think, "I can still go to work, right?" Sometimes the journey from "Fifi is about to die" to "I'm abandoning Fifi before I miss my train" can take less than three seconds. And then there's the hideous clash of wills between wanting to cuddle said sick child and not really wanting sick child's snot all over your only presentable blouse. There's a marketing opportunity here. What working mom will want to go through life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Whooping Cough Attacks | 2/13/2002 | See Source »

...Chastity’s naked angel rides her cloud sporting a halo tarnished by scandal. Her coy looks cannot hide her true nature as a lascivious beast. As Fifi Cobas`04 concluded, “I have a boyfriend, and hooking up with another guy was not a possibility for me. But the two friends that I went with fared quite well. There were some really sketchy guys in the market for free ass, and in general Chastity was as debaucherous as expected...

Author: By W. L. Adams, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Get Chaste or Chased | 11/8/2001 | See Source »

...Fifi doesn't really need the money for her dancing dates. All night long, she hasn't paid for her Baileys on the rocks, and she knows there's always someone out there to pick up the tab. Earlier, two drunken Western men inexplicably wearing fake mustaches sidled up to her and bought her a drink. Later, a skinny Chinese guy in a muscle T shirt bought her another. "If I like someone, I'll walk up to them and talk to them," she says. "My friends are too embarrassed to do that, but life is too short...

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

...Fifi isn't sure that her parents love each other. "They don't know anything about sex," she says. "They just think it's for making children, not for making love." He works at the tax bureau, and she's a stay-at-home mom, who doesn't seem too excited when he comes back each night. Coming of age during the Cultural Revolution, they met at a time in China's history when personal satisfaction was subordinate to the collective socialist cause. "That generation didn't have a chance to find the perfect person," she says. "They...

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

...They sweep on their mascara and pluck their eyebrows to craft the perfect face. They play the part of sex kitten with lots of meow, because that's what men want. But the 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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