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...mother and daughter is just visible. The last photograph depicts the same scene as the first, but the woman in this photo, although she looks similar, has gray hair. She is the first woman's mother. The three photographs are joined into one long, flattened panoramic shot by the pink paisley wallpaper which forms a background for the entire scene...
...blue vinyl flooring of her Bangkok hut, Jacky leans her bare back against the plank wall, her dragon tattoos glistening with sweat as she trims her fingernails with a straight razor. It has been two days?no, three?without sleep, sitting in this hut and smoking the little pink speed tablets off sheets of tinfoil stripped from Krong Tip cigarette packets. Now, as the flushes of artificial energy recede and the realization surfaces that there's no more money anywhere in this hut, Jacky is crashing hard and she hates everyone and everything. Especially Bing. She hates that sponging little...
...Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia and Australia or take it overland into Burma to the Wa state, where the drugs are further refined into the tablets that are eventually smuggled into Thailand and sold, via numerous middlemen, to Jacky and her fellow addicts at the Do It Yourself Happy Homes. The pink pills that Jacky smokes are all stamped WY, the symbol of the United Wa State Army...
...called urban renewal stems from similarly short-sighted greed. In the mid-'90s, China's largest metropolis went on a building blitz. Across the muddy Huangpu river, a futuristic realm called Pudong materialized, filled with hubris and towering skyscrapers. Shanghai's suburbs expanded into the countryside, with pink-tiled apartment blocks promising a leisured lifestyle to the city's middle class. But in the late '90s, Shanghai's building boom went bust. With occupancy rates plummeting to a dismal 35% in some areas, real-estate developers panicked. So did the city government, which had counted on a buoyant real-estate...
Fragola--wearing only a grey bra, purple bikini bottoms, sparkly red high heels and a pink boa--elicited surprised laughter and applause from the crowd...