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...appreciates a little diversion, and during my flight from Bangkok to Beijing this month to cover the Olympics, those helping hands came from several rows of Thais sitting nearby. When Dash dropped his yellow duckie, a powerfully built young man in Row 57 obligingly returned it. Another man played peekaboo, his forearms bulging as his hands uncovered his grinning face. Then, a female traveler who - how shall I put this? - was built rather more solidly than the average Thai maiden, gave my son a friendly wink. I began to suspect something. I looked at one of the men and raised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just Your Average Olympian | 8/5/2008 | See Source »

Preppy Pride Bye-bye to the peekaboo pop-tart look. Teens are buttoning up for fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside Table of Contents: Aug. 30, 2004 | 8/30/2004 | See Source »

...these urban teens, it has become a staple of the biggest look for the back-to-school season: preppy. For the past three years, teenagers across the country have tested the limits of propriety--and school dress codes--with girls in ultra-low-rise jeans (often paired with a peekaboo G-string) and itty-bitty graphic Ts. Boys have opted for baggy denim, athletic jerseys and hooded sweatshirts. But the de facto uniform is finally changing. Teens describe their new look as "simple" or "clean" rather than preppy. Whatever name you give the trend, students are incorporating tweeds, tartans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Preppy Goes Back to School | 8/30/2004 | See Source »

...Come on and dress me, dress me, dress me in my peekaboo blouse With the lovely interlining made of Chesapeake mouse. I want my polka-dotted dickie with the crinoline fringe, For I'm going do-mi-do-ing on a do-mi-do binge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Seuss on First | 3/2/2004 | See Source »

...Like virtually every Hong Kong singer, Tse made films. In his debut, Young and Dangerous: The Prequel, he revealed a complex screen persona, seductive and lonely, under that peekaboo mop of hair. He impressed critics as a gangster's prot?g? in Metade Fumaca and as the tyro gunman in Tsui Hark's Time and Tide. They called him a natural?not the next Andy Lau but the one and only Nicholas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hard Time for a Rebel | 10/7/2002 | See Source »

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