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When night falls outside the sprawling Kadena Air Force Base in the center of Okinawa, the streets turn into a bacchanal of hard drinking, drag racing, loud music and raucous, sweaty dancing. Tattooed guys in muscle shirts and cargo pants rub against women in midriff-baring T shirts and tight jeans, and as the crowd spills from bars onto sidewalks, the night shifts into overdrive. "Hey, we're 19-year-old guys, we're away from home, we're pumped up and we're horny," says a young Marine from California. "Of course it's all about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Incident in Okinawa | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

...PACK A set of well-developed abdominal muscles; a lean, muscular midriff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Words | 6/25/2001 | See Source »

...Elsewhere, designers aimed for something new and didn?t quite succeed. Christian Lacroix reached into his remnant bag and threw out a confounding array of colors, textures and patterns. Emanuel Ungaro reached into his and came out with the parade of the seven veils. The bare-midriff-and-veil-thing may not be for everyone, but hopefully for Ungaro?s bottom line, the perfume he advertised before the show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Frock Wars | 2/5/2001 | See Source »

Women of my generation have to thank Britney Spears for at least one fashion coup: she has given the country amnesia about how we dressed as kids. Blinded by her bare midriff, we have apparently forgotten about our own fashion choices--the hot pants, micro-minis, platform shoes, crop tops, tank tops and hip huggers so tight we had to lie down to get them zipped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Like Mother, Like Daughter | 2/5/2001 | See Source »

...didn't actually know what she meant by the "we make new forms of samba every day" part, but it sounded good, she sounded energetic when she said it, and so I went with it. It's hard to argue with someone whose midriff is that much more toned than your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock in Rio, Part 3 | 1/18/2001 | See Source »

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