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Word: strobing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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Babylon is packed with babies, sexy Shanghai babies. Tonight and every night, Fifi knows she's the sexiest of them all. As the strobe lights flicker and the bass throbs at this Shanghai nightclub, all eyes are on her. Fifi's eyes search the crowd, too, wandering up and down men's bodies, looking for the perfect one. But right now, Fifi is dissatisfied with what she sees. She pouts her bubble-gum pink lips and frowns. "There's nobody here tonight," she says. "Nobody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

Shanghai babies are always on the lookout for something better. They research their stock portfolio. They sweep on their mascara and pluck their eyebrows to craft the perfect face. They play the part of sex kitten with lots of meow, because that's what men want. But the strobe exposes the girls for what they really are. The flashes of harsh, white light strip Fifi's face of her makeup - and her contrivance. In that freeze-frame instant, Fifi isn't a sexy sophisticate, just an innocent girl searching for love. In a place called Babylon, where Shanghai babies pretend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...parts in movies like Braveheart, Splitting Heirs and Frankenstein, but also to an active lifestyle that included acrobatics, martial arts and skydiving. With his body alternating between rigidity and uncontrollable spasms, almost the only physical recreation left for Lawrence was going out with friends to London clubs. Under the strobe lights his thrashing movements could be mistaken for enthusiastic dancing. So clubs became the one place he didn't feel self-conscious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ecstasy's Dividend | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

...sports car that once defined an affordable testosterone boost. Remember the 240Z, the long-nosed rocket that every boy just had to drive after it came out in 1970, later known as the fastest-selling sports car of its time? Monday, to cacophonous music and a panoply of strobe lights in the Motor City's Cobo Hall, Ghosn was set to reintroduce the "Z" and all the verve that it once stood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rebirth Of The Z | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

...Disappear Completely," is a beautiful ballad in the tradition of OK Computer's "Lucky" and The Bends' "Fake Plastic Trees." The minimalist lyrics and instrumentation are in concert with the song's theme of invisibility. However, there is still the rare indulgence; a gorgeous and unexpected melisma on "Strobe Lights" sets the song apart from its predecessors...

Author: By Thalia S. Field, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Future Shock: 'Kid A' | 10/6/2000 | See Source »

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