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...Phsar Cha, just north of the river, offers a roaring trade in souvenirs, silks and pottery. Its byways are patrolled by importunate motorcycle-taxi drivers, land-mine victims and a juvenile sales force whose arresting patter and command of English brook no discouragement. "Buy a bracelet for your girlfriend," commands a jet-eyed moppet whose head barely reaches my elbow, as she rattles a handful of coconut rings. "I don't have a girlfriend," I reply. "You know why you don't have a girlfriend? It's because you don't buy her a present." The logic is hardly watertight...
Seemingly innocent Paul McCarney is revealed to have been engaged to girlfriend Dot Rhone while she was pregnant. “With the pregnancy only three months along, Dot miscarried,” Spitz writes. “With [Paul] suddenly free of obligation, it was only a matter of time before they turned bitterly frigid, and a few weeks later he announced that it was over between them...
...turns out you don’t have to stop looking at porn just because you’re worried that your girlfriend will find out from her UA lab partner that you’ve bookmarked PremiumBukkake.com. The User Assistants (UAs) in the Personal Computer Clinic at the Science Center might be exposed to some pretty sick stuff on frozen laptop screens, but you don’t need to worry about having your fascination with naughty nurses made known to the public. When asked if the computers brought into the clinic ever had dirty pictures frozen onscreen...
...Experience's teen anthems were surprisingly literary: a breakup song, Checkers Speech, is based on Nixon's television address, and Institutionalized Misogyny name-checks Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault. Another ditty neatly summed up male teenage sexual frustration with the song title Even Hitler Had a Girlfriend...
...heavily hyped comeback, Jay-Z tries to subvert the problem of having said everything by saying everything a little differently. Where once his delivery had the ring-a-ding-ding smoothness of Sinatra--another vocalist who made callousness seem like charm--Jay recognizes that, at 37, with a girlfriend beloved by the public (Beyonc Knowles) and a company to run (Def Jam Records), that act is a lot harder to pull off. So on Lost One and the brilliant thinking-about-cheating song Trouble ("If my hand's in the cookie jar know one thing/ I'ma take the cookie...