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Word: hookah (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thus Thailand is becoming an interlocking network of imported dreams. Men from the gulf have turned parts of Bangkok into a pirated version of a hookah- and-hooker Arabian Nights fantasy; Japanese visitors fill the golf courses, serene in the knowledge that a week of putting, together with planes and hotels, will cost less than seven days on a course at home. And many Westerners trek into the hills around Chiangmai to live for a few days with the local tribes, sleeping in huts and savoring , if only from a distance, the village opium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: The Smiling Lures Of Thailand | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

Come to exotic India! Surrender to the magic and romance of the East! See snowcapped peaks and dusty plains. Visit pastel palaces and brooding temples. Ride painted pachyderms, wander through crowded bazaars, and puff contentedly on a hookah. Meet scheming maharajahs and delicate princesses with those funny earrings in their noses. Sit back as lissome native girls in swirling saris dance for your delight. Take advantage of this once in a lifetime offer: witness the traditional Indian suttee, a barbaric ritual in which a willing Hindu widow is cremated on the funeral pyre of her husband. India. A country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: A Romance of the Raj | 4/16/1984 | See Source »

...Brothers do it well enough to justify alone the cost of the album which is only $5, and you can't even fart for $5 these days). Lee Davision arranged it real slow and bluesy, like it wasn't just imagination but maybe a friendly visit to the hookah as well; a bass dum-de-dums the rhythm in the background, and altogether: well, listen to it yourself. 'Just My Imagination' is the showpiece of the second side, which is generally more accessible to someone unacquainted with traditional Afro-American music: besides "Imagination," it includes 'Natural High' and Stevie Wonder...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Creativity | 3/19/1980 | See Source »

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