Word: go-go
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...Amazing Thai Food"?motorcycle taxi drivers and bar girls start to swarm. Four years ago Kiam was a rice farmer in the northeast. "I barely made enough to feed myself," he says. Now, on a good night, he can make $80 in profit. Somkid, a dancer in a nearby go-go bar, says her foreign boyfriends-for-the-night are revolted when they see her scarfing down scarab beetles. But as she plucks the legs off a locust so she can suck out its eggs, Somkid claims her dietary habits have never cost her a customer. "Why should...
...This is the world of neo-psychedelica, Japanese style. Whether the kids realize it or not, their culture is flashing back to the era of free love, shaggy hair and peace, brother. Whereas speed was the drug of choice for legions of hardworking overachievers in the go-go '80s and early '90s, the current generation is increasingly opting to space out through 'shrooms rather than get wired and tuned in with shabu. With vendors selling the dried fungi in head shops, street-corner stands and even over the Internet, scoring mushrooms has become as easy as buying...
...they need the refrigerator space b) gift wrapping is so much easier c) they fit nicely in bento boxes d) square Watermelon Super Happy Fun Go-Go...
...however, was a touch overcooked, but the ad buyers, NBC staff and journos lined up for it anyway, chewing poorly executed red meat - that emblematic food of the long stock boom - as if they needed another reminder, besides the numbers staring at them in their balance books, that the go-go '90s are indeed over...
...failed real estate speculator." During the '80s and early '90s, real estate speculation had been the frothy center of Japan's double-espresso economy, with developers and brokers becoming that era's version of the more recent dotcom billionaires. Speculators like Joji Obara were the heroes of Japan's go-go era, driving their Bentleys and Rolls Royces, living in their mansions, dating their exotic blond girlfriends. This was the period, remember, when Japan was going to take over the world. Men like Joji Obara cast themselves as the Fibe Mini warriors on the vanguard of this...