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Word: vip (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...mama-san warned, all her clothes had better be off before the song ended. It was the most humiliating thing she had ever done. But a few days later, it got worse?a G.I. came in and paid to take her to one of Club Y's squalid VIP rooms, where sex costs $60 for 10 minutes and about $160 for half an hour. The mama-san gave her tissues and a condom, and hit her when she resisted. "Every time I am crying," says Danan. "The mama-san said, 'If you cry like that in the business, the business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Base Instincts | 8/5/2002 | See Source »

...Marty Scorsese calls to say sorry, no room at VIP screening of "Gangs of New York." I can hear Geffen laughing in the background the whole time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let's Do Lunch--Really! | 7/15/2002 | See Source »

...mail to Stones mgr. requesting VIP concert tickets comes back. "Not valid address"--what gives? Call Mick Jagger's office; he's in a meeting. Ronnie Wood, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts all at a funeral in New Zealand. Shucks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let's Do Lunch--Really! | 7/15/2002 | See Source »

...love all night but last only 15 minutes. • That one mustn't listen to the smooth-talkers. The next time someone says, 'I'm going to plant a tree,' he'll have to have a shovel in his hand before I believe him. With his iron-clad resume, VIP-packed address book and the balls of a drunken woman, Messier passed himself off as a shrewd industrialist when he was in fact at very best a cold-blooded financier (a redundancy of terms, I know). • That the Bronfman family is a cunning brood, who in selling Seagram...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Fell to Earth | 7/7/2002 | See Source »

...genes encoding four brain-growth regulators that have been found in newborns who go on to develop mental retardation or autism. Among these compounds, as National Institutes of Health researcher Dr. Karin Nelson and her colleagues reported last year, is a potent molecule known as vasoactive intestinal peptide. VIP plays a role not only in brain development but in the immune system and gastrointestinal tract as well, a hint that other disorders that so frequently accompany autism may not be coincidental...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Secrets of Autism | 5/6/2002 | See Source »

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