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'''Taco Bell'''<br />
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197; fastfood chain of inexpensive Mexican food restaurants
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'''Tate, Sharon (1943-1969)'''<br />
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48; Actress and wife of Roman Polanski, murdered by the Manson Family in 1969
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'''Tabloid of the Damned'''<br />
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53, blog operated by March Kelleher [http://www.TabloidOfTheDamned.com TabloidOfTheDamned.com]
  
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'''"Tears on My Pillow"'''<br />
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'''TAG Heuer'''<br />
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300: Reference to it: "tempt the hand of fate"; released in 1958, it was Little Anthony & the Imperials first hit and contains the line "I'd gladly take you back, and tempt the hand of fate."
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31 - High-end wristwatch
  
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'''Teke'''<br />
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'''Tail 'Em and Nail 'Em'''<br />
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182; Greek restaurant where Doc and Tito eat
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4 - Max's fraud-investigation agency;
  
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'''"Telstar"'''<br />
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'''Tallis'''<br/>
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124; 1962 instrumental by The Tornados
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See "Ice, Tallis"
  
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'''Temple, Shirley (b. 1928)'''<br />
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'''Tanger Outlets'''<br />
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Known for most of her adult life by her married name, Shirley Temple Black, she is an American actress, singer, and tap dancer, who is best known for being an iconic American child actress of the 1930s. After her film achievements she began a notable career as a diplomat; singing "We Should Be Together" from ''Little Miss Broadway'' (1938)
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179 A chain of shopping outlet malls. Tenants in its centers include Liz Claiborne, Gap, Banana Republic, Old Navy, Polo Ralph Lauren, Reebok, Tommy Hilfiger, Nautica, Abercrombie & Fitch, Hollister, Eddie Bauer, Brooks Brothers and Nike.
  
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'''"Tequila"'''<br />
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'''tarball'''<br />
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125; 1958 rock instrumental by The Champs
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37 - Files distributed as a tar archive, a computer file format that can combine multiple files into a single file called "tarball", usually compressed
  
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'''Tex-Mecca'''<br />
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'''Tarnow, Elaine & Ernie'''<br />
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221; Taqueria in Las Vegas where Doc and Trillium go
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56, Maxine's parents, demonstrated against Salvador and Nicaragua and Raygun; Elaine at WTC, while Ernie's at Sony multiplex, 247;
  
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'''Tex Wiener École de Pilotage'''<br />
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'''Tarnow, Maxine'''<br />
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134; Tex Wiener first appears in ''Vineland'' (p. 361), where he is introduced as one of Sasha's many romantic interests. The French term "École de Pilotage" can both mean "flight school" and "driving school." In ''Vineland'' Tex wears a "bright silver custom jumpsuit," cultivating the impression that he is a pilot, but it seems that Doc has merely been attending driving school.
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1, aka Loeffler, Jewish, 24; and Heidi, 25; 84, pissing; singing "Are You with Me Dr. Wu" at Korean karaoke, 156; sidekick mode with March, 162; decertified, 172; dream, 194; MILF, 219; Eric's footjob, 225;r ubbing her feet together wistfully, 346; "some version of herself" 412;
  
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'''"That's Amore"'''<br />
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'''TELEVISION'''<br />
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1952 song by composer Harry Warren and lyricist Jack Brooks. It became a major hit and signature song for Dean Martin in 1953. ''Amore'' means "love" in Italian, giving a general traslation in English "that's love." It begins, "When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie that's amore."
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"Long as I'm tubeside by nine" 92; "tubal overlay" 125; Channel 13 yakker, 249; 290; 293; 298; 321; 327; 367;
  
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'''Thorndyke'''<br />
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'''Temple, Shirley'''<br />
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153; Aubrey's "coadjutor" biker
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127
  
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'''Three Stooges'''<br />
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'''Tetris'''<br />
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American vaudeville and comedy act of the early to mid–20th century best known for their numerous short subject films. Their hallmark was physical slapstick comedy punctuated by quickly-delivered one-liners, within outrageous storylines. The original three were Larry, Moe and Curly; 198
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43 - a tile-matching puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov in the Soviet Union. It was released on June 6, 1984 while he was working for the Dorodnicyn Computing Centre of the Academy of Science of the USSR in Moscow. He derived its name from the Greek numerical prefix tetra- (all of the game's pieces contain four segments) and tennis, Pajitnov's favorite sport. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris Wikipedia]
  
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'''Threeply, Dr.'''<br />
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'''Thrubwell, Lloyd'''<br/>
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187; at Chryskylodon
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Cousin of Cornelia, works for the CIA, 350; 393
  
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'''Thunderclap Newman'''<br />
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'''Tiffany'''<br />
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Late 1960s One-hit wonder band from the UK. Their single, "Something in the Air", was a 1969 UK Number One hit. The band was formed by the Who's Pete Townsend as a vehicle for the Who's former roadie, John "Speedy" Keen's songs. Keen wrote "Armenia City in the Sky" on the Who's ''The Who Sell Out'' album (1967). Townsend played bass under the pseudonym Bijou Drains; "Something in the Air" 356
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459 - a "cute ''nyashetchka''" Misha and Grisha met in a bar
  
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'''''Tiatimo meraki'''''<br />
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'''tiki'''<br />
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249; song by Roza Eskenazi
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'''''Time Tunnel, The'''''<br />
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'''"Time After Time"'''<br />
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A 1966–1967 U.S. color science fiction TV series, starring James Darren; 261
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332 - Cyndi Lauper's 1984 hit; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_After_Time_(Cyndi_Lauper_song) Wikipedia]
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{{#ev:youtube|VdQY7BusJNU}}
  
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'''Tiny Tim (1932-1996)'''<br />
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'''time travel'''<br />
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Herbert Khaury, better known by the stage name Tiny Tim, was an American singer, ukulele player, and musical archivist. He was most famous for his rendition of "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" sung in a distinctive high falsetto / vibrato voice (his normal singing voice was baritone). He was generally thought of as a novelty act, though his records display a wide knowledge of American songs; "The Ice Caps Are Melting" (from his 1968 debut album), 108. He's also mentioned on pg. 309 of ''Vineland''.
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242 - "an unforgiving discipline [requiring] years of pain, hard labor, and loss, and there is no redemption &#151; of, or from, anything"; "time troopers from the Montauk Project" 339; "Someday, Eric, they're going to have the time machine" 346; "fold of space-time" 473;
  
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'''Tito'''<br />
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'''Tiny Desk Unit'''<br />
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see [[S#tito| Stavrou, Tito]]
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254 - New Wave band that was one of the first bands to play the original location 9:30 Club;
  
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'''Todos Santos'''<br />
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'''Title 18'''<br />
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99; famed surfing location in Baja Mexico
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5 - Title 18 of the United States Code is the criminal and penal code of the federal government of the United States. It deals with federal crimes and criminal procedure. [http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18 Wikipedia]
  
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'''''toloache'''''<br />
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'''Tomcat'''<br />
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Scientific name is ''Datura inoxia'', native to Central and South America. The Aztecs called the plant ''toloatzin'', and used it long before the Spanish conquest of Mexico for many therapeutic purposes, such as poultices for wounds where it acts as an anodyne. Although the Aztecs warned against madness and "various and vain imaginings", many native Americans have used the plant as an entheogen for hallucinations and rites of passage; Indians smoking it, 355;
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83 The Beretta 3032 Tomcat and Beretta 3032 Tomcat Inox are semi-automatic pistols designed and manufactured by Beretta. They are chambered in .32 ACP and are small pistols, designed for concealed-carry and use as backup weapons.
  
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'''Tommy's'''<br />
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'''torpedoes'''<br />
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73; burger joint in Los Angeles where Krishna the fry cook provides joints in the burgers, for a bit extra
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138 - "torpedo" is 1920s slang for a hitman or hired gun
  
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'''Tommy James & the Shondells'''<br />
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'''''Tosca'''''<br />
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165; their biggest hits were "Crimson and Clover" (1968) and "I Think We're Along Now" (1967); named after guitarist Troy Shondell, a hero of Tommy James's.
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100, Placido Domingo and Hildegard Behrens;
  
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'''Trashmen, The'''<br />
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'''Train Wreck'''<br />
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Rock 'n' roll band formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1962. The group played surf rock which included many elements from garage rock; 37; "Surfin' Bird" (1963), 124
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69, a brand of strong marijuana
  
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'''Tropicana Motel'''<br />
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'''Traipse, Lester'''<br />
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273; located at 8585 Santa Monica Blvd in West Hollywood, and torn down in 1980, it was where many rock stars stayed in Los Angeles.
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150 - Former owner of hwgaahwg.com, till Ice bought it; stealing from Ice, 171; body found in deluxe Upper West Side apartment (the Deseret), 196; alive with blond bombshell, 197; death details, 204; ghostly scurrying in Maxine's peripheral vision, 259; 305; ghost, 370; 377; in DeepArcher, 427;
  
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'''Trumbo, Dalton (1905-1976)'''<br />
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'''Trebek, Alex'''<br />
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254; an American screenwriter and novelist, and one of the Hollywood Ten, a group of film professionals who testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947 during the committee's investigation of Communist influences in the motion picture industry. He refused to give any information and was convicted of contempt of Congress, blacklisted, and in 1950, spent 11 months in prison in the federal penitentiary in Ashland, Kentucky.
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200 - Host of the long-running TV game show "Jeopardy"
  
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'''TRW'''<br />
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'''Trevor'''<br />
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54; See "Ramo isn't telling Woolridge"
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5 - whistleblower at a snack food company in Jersey, Maxine's client
  
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'''Tubb, Ernest'''<br />
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'''Tri-state Area'''<br />
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225; country-western singer
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'''Tubeside, Dr. Buddy'''<br />
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'''Trump, Donald'''<br />
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13; with whom Doc shares an office "near the airport, off East Imperial"; injects patients with 'Vitamin B12', a euphemism for his own blend of amphetamines; [[L#petunia|Petunia Leeway]] is his nurse; 289; 360
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'''Tujunga Wash'''<br />
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'''trustafarians'''<br />
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136; a stream in Los Angeles County, California. It is a tributary of the Los Angeles River. It is called a wash because it is usually dry, especially the lower reaches, only carrying significant flows during and after storms, which usually only occur between November and April.
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232 - a rich young person who adopts a bohemian lifestyle and lives in a nonaffluent area.
  
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'''Tweedle, Arthur'''<br />
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'''Tubby Hook'''<br />
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199; "civilian machinist who worked a regular day shift at the naval weapons stations" and is a member of Vigilant California
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161, Sid selling speed out of;
  
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'''Tweedle, Cindi'''<br />
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'''tubeside'''<br />
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200; Arthur's wife
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'''TWA Flight 800'''<br />
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118 - "blown out of the sky over Long Island Sound"; Trans World Airlines Flight 800 (TWA 800), a Boeing 747-100, exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York, on July 17, 1996, at about 8:31 PM EDT, 12 minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport on a scheduled international passenger flight to Rome, with a stopover in Paris. All 230 people on board were killed, the third-deadliest aviation accident to occur in U.S. territory.
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There are conspiracy theories around this crash, the two most prevalent are that of a terrorist bomb on board, or a missile striking the plane (attributed by some to American armed forces and by others to non-state actors). Those supporting these alternative explanations for the crash typically claim that the NTSB's explanation was created as a cover-up; that the NTSB did not investigate sufficiently; or that the NTSB did not have all the evidence it should have had to reach the correct conclusion. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Flight_800#Alternative_theories Wikipedia entry]
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'''Tworkeffx'''<br />
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295 - "builds and maintains virtual private networks" acquired by Gabriel Ice;
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'''Typhphani and Djennyphrr'''<br />
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180 - group therapy session on TV
  
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'''Twong, Zigzag'''<br />
 
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100; surfer in Gordita Beach who had switched to a shorter surf board
 
  
  
 
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Tabloid of the Damned
53, blog operated by March Kelleher TabloidOfTheDamned.com

TAG Heuer
31 - High-end wristwatch

Tail 'Em and Nail 'Em
4 - Max's fraud-investigation agency;

Tallis
See "Ice, Tallis"

Tanger Outlets
179 A chain of shopping outlet malls. Tenants in its centers include Liz Claiborne, Gap, Banana Republic, Old Navy, Polo Ralph Lauren, Reebok, Tommy Hilfiger, Nautica, Abercrombie & Fitch, Hollister, Eddie Bauer, Brooks Brothers and Nike.

tarball
37 - Files distributed as a tar archive, a computer file format that can combine multiple files into a single file called "tarball", usually compressed

Tarnow, Elaine & Ernie
56, Maxine's parents, demonstrated against Salvador and Nicaragua and Raygun; Elaine at WTC, while Ernie's at Sony multiplex, 247;

Tarnow, Maxine
1, aka Loeffler, Jewish, 24; and Heidi, 25; 84, pissing; singing "Are You with Me Dr. Wu" at Korean karaoke, 156; sidekick mode with March, 162; decertified, 172; dream, 194; MILF, 219; Eric's footjob, 225;r ubbing her feet together wistfully, 346; "some version of herself" 412;

TELEVISION
"Long as I'm tubeside by nine" 92; "tubal overlay" 125; Channel 13 yakker, 249; 290; 293; 298; 321; 327; 367;

Temple, Shirley
127

Tetris
43 - a tile-matching puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov in the Soviet Union. It was released on June 6, 1984 while he was working for the Dorodnicyn Computing Centre of the Academy of Science of the USSR in Moscow. He derived its name from the Greek numerical prefix tetra- (all of the game's pieces contain four segments) and tennis, Pajitnov's favorite sport. Wikipedia

Thrubwell, Lloyd
Cousin of Cornelia, works for the CIA, 350; 393

Tiffany
459 - a "cute nyashetchka" Misha and Grisha met in a bar

tiki
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"Time After Time"
332 - Cyndi Lauper's 1984 hit; Wikipedia

time travel
242 - "an unforgiving discipline [requiring] years of pain, hard labor, and loss, and there is no redemption — of, or from, anything"; "time troopers from the Montauk Project" 339; "Someday, Eric, they're going to have the time machine" 346; "fold of space-time" 473;

Tiny Desk Unit
254 - New Wave band that was one of the first bands to play the original location 9:30 Club;

Title 18
5 - Title 18 of the United States Code is the criminal and penal code of the federal government of the United States. It deals with federal crimes and criminal procedure. Wikipedia

Tomcat
83 The Beretta 3032 Tomcat and Beretta 3032 Tomcat Inox are semi-automatic pistols designed and manufactured by Beretta. They are chambered in .32 ACP and are small pistols, designed for concealed-carry and use as backup weapons.

torpedoes
138 - "torpedo" is 1920s slang for a hitman or hired gun

Tosca
100, Placido Domingo and Hildegard Behrens;

Train Wreck
69, a brand of strong marijuana

Traipse, Lester
150 - Former owner of hwgaahwg.com, till Ice bought it; stealing from Ice, 171; body found in deluxe Upper West Side apartment (the Deseret), 196; alive with blond bombshell, 197; death details, 204; ghostly scurrying in Maxine's peripheral vision, 259; 305; ghost, 370; 377; in DeepArcher, 427;

Trebek, Alex
200 - Host of the long-running TV game show "Jeopardy"

Trevor
5 - whistleblower at a snack food company in Jersey, Maxine's client

Tri-state Area
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Trump, Donald
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trustafarians
232 - a rich young person who adopts a bohemian lifestyle and lives in a nonaffluent area.

Tubby Hook
161, Sid selling speed out of;

tubeside
93

TWA Flight 800
118 - "blown out of the sky over Long Island Sound"; Trans World Airlines Flight 800 (TWA 800), a Boeing 747-100, exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York, on July 17, 1996, at about 8:31 PM EDT, 12 minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport on a scheduled international passenger flight to Rome, with a stopover in Paris. All 230 people on board were killed, the third-deadliest aviation accident to occur in U.S. territory.

There are conspiracy theories around this crash, the two most prevalent are that of a terrorist bomb on board, or a missile striking the plane (attributed by some to American armed forces and by others to non-state actors). Those supporting these alternative explanations for the crash typically claim that the NTSB's explanation was created as a cover-up; that the NTSB did not investigate sufficiently; or that the NTSB did not have all the evidence it should have had to reach the correct conclusion. Wikipedia entry

Tworkeffx
295 - "builds and maintains virtual private networks" acquired by Gabriel Ice;

Typhphani and Djennyphrr
180 - group therapy session on TV


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