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The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby choose

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[US] T. Wolfe Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1966) 6: The old babes at the row upon row of slot machines.
at babe, n.
[US] T. Wolfe Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1966) 68: God knows what the music business biggies thought of Phil Spector.
at biggie, n.
[US] T. Wolfe Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1966) 24: I’m breaking up, and I don’t even know what’s happening to me.
at break up, v.
[US] T. Wolfe Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1966) 24: The manager [...] looks up at the old guy from under his eyebrows with a version of the Red Hook brush-off.
at brush-off, n.
[US] T. Wolfe Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1966) 222: The ‘Chicago Boxcar,’ a combination of the flat top and the ducktail .
at Chicago boxcar (n.) under Chicago, adj.
[US] T. Wolfe Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1966) 38: Singers like Frank Sinatra, all that corny nostalgia.
at corny, adj.
[US] T. Wolfe Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1966) 23: Back around the corner reading a god-dern detective magazine.
at god-damn, adj.
[US] T. Wolfe Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1966) 97: They have to design a car they can sell to the farmer in Kansas as well as the hot dog in Hollywood.
at hot dog, n.2
[US] T. Wolfe Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1966) 19: Their [i.e. old white women’s] hair has been fried and dyed into impossible shapes.
at fried, dyed, laid to the side, adj.
[US] T. Wolfe Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1966) 65: Some kind of old short-armed fatty [...] with a spread collar shirt and a bald olive skull with strands of black hair.
at fatty, n.1
[US] T. Wolfe Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1966) 213: Baby Jane sitting up in her Park Avenue apartment with her gotrocks.
at gotrocks, n.
[US] T. Wolfe Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1966) 6: Hopping himself up with good old amphetamine [...] then hooking down more alcohol.
at hook down (v.) under hook, v.1
[US] T. Wolfe Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1966) 6: Hopping himself up with good old amphetamine [...] then hooking down more alcohol.
at hopped (up), adj.
[US] T. Wolfe Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1966) 78: The inchoate leching you are liable to be doing, what with the bouffant nymphets.
at letch, v.
[US] T. Wolfe Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1966) 50: The letters are big, and her little mary poppins tremble honestly.
at mary poppins, n.
[US] T. Wolfe ‘The Girl of the Year’ in Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1966) 205: All that hair flowing down over a coat made of . . . zebra! Those motherless stripes!
at motherless, adj.
[US] T. Wolfe Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1966) 38: Elf boots, Russian hats, flipnik jerseys.
at -nik, sfx
[US] T. Wolfe Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1966) x: Lower class creeps and nutballs with dermatitic skin and ratty hair.
at nutball, n.
[US] T. Wolfe Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1966) 67: He is not a short-armed fatty hustling nutball fads.
at nutball, adj.
[US] T. Wolfe Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1966) 24: The call girl who [...] was spending Monday through Friday at Rose de Lima and ‘turning out’ [...] to the tune of $200 to $300 a weekend.
at turn out, v.4
[US] T. Wolfe Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1966) 88: Or, if it was a real grudge match [...] he’d say, ‘You wanna go for pink slips?’ The registrations on the cars were pink; the winner got the other guy’s car.
at go for pink slips (v.) under pink, adj.
[US] T. Wolfe Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1966) 17: All those sequinned giblets pooning around on flamingo legs.
at poon, v.
[US] T. Wolfe Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1966) x: Lower class creeps and nutballs with dermatitic skin and ratty hair.
at ratty, adj.
[US] T. Wolfe Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1966) 13: The problem is not so much the drunks, crooks or roughhousers.
at roughhouse, v.
[US] T. Wolfe ‘The Girl of the Year’ Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1966) 205: None of your old idea of sexpots, prima donnas, romantic tragediennes.
at sexpot (n.) under sex, n.
[US] T. Wolfe Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1966) 22: Doffing his straw skimmer.
at skimmer, n.1
[US] T. Wolfe Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1966) 19: Bony, atrophied leg stems sticking up into their hummocky hips.
at stems, n.1
[US] T. Wolfe Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1966) 40: Stroked out, catatonic, in front of the television set.
at stroked out (adj.) under stroke, v.1
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