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D. S. Mill
126 auditing company;

Daikatana
157 - John Romero's Daikatana, or simply Daikatana, is a first-person shooter video game developed by Ion Storm and published by Eidos Interactive. Released on May 23, 2000 for Windows, it was led by John Romero. The game is known as one of the major commercial failures of the video game industry. Daikatana was later ported to the Nintendo 64. A different version of the game was developed for the Game Boy Color, with a version for the PlayStation cancelled during development.

Although the initial game design was completed in March 1997, it took several years for the game to finally come out.

Danbury, gates of
6, 148;

Daphne and Wilma's
201, cafe where Conkling and Maxine go

Darklinear Solutions
146, fiber brokerage in Flatiron District of Manhattan, paid by hashslingrz

Darth Vadar theme
239;

DARPA
419, 420

Darren
283 Platt's Asian child intern;

Dashkov, Igor
138, fixer for Russian Mafia; with March Kelleher, 161; 206; 329;

Davis, Bette
In The Letter 276; in Asian child intern's rap song, 283; 381;

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
100, Sam Jaffe as Professor Barnhardt; Synopsis - Wikipedia

Daytona
See "Lorrain, Daytona"

DEATH
sanity, 2;

DeepArcher
36, Justin & Lucas's project; "a journey" (a "departure") 37; Maxine takes a look, 68; 74-77, described; 85; 135; like Island of Meadows, 167; offers in Vegas, 217; Maxine logs on, 354; open source, 354; 373;

Deep Web
10; 35; 57; 77-78; "a dump, with structure" 226; Eric Outfield gives Maxine a tour, 240;

Della Femina, Jodi
186 - In 1999 she published, to much fanfare, the Hamptons guidebook Jodi's Shortcuts. The book outraged plenty of Hamptons folks who aren't blue-chip Maidstone types, since it revealed all the sacred backroads detours through leafy neighborhoods off the Montauk highway. She is the daughter of Jerry Della Femina, a 60's "Madman" of Madison Avenue who wrote From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor: Front-Line Dispatches from the Advertising War which inspired the Mad Men TV series.

Deloitte & Touche
23

Denino's pizza
166

Deschler, Avram ("Avi")
Married to Brooke (Maxine's sister) 98, and Likud; and Mossad, 105; and Gabriel Ice in Haifa, 248; Avi a "Mossad sleeper"? 252;

Deschler, Brooke
98 - Maxine's sister; back from the anti-kibbutz, 247;

Deseret, The
27, Dakota & Holiday Inn - deluxe Upper West Side apartment building, with health club; stone zombie, 28; the Back Elevator, 141; Hallowe'en party, 366;

Despard, Reg
7, documentary guy who began as a movie pirate back in the nineties; 57; ex-wife Gracie, 60; 80, paranoia; 90; at The Deseret, 142; has disappeared, 239;

Deuce
51, "sleazy old" in Times Square, NYC - 42nd Street in New York City (the southernmost part of Times Square). Back in the day, a center of total depravity, especially between 8th and 9th Avenue, but currently Disneyfied. More...

Deus Ex
356 - Deus Ex is a cyberpunk-themed action-role playing video game — combining first-person shooter, stealth and role-playing elements — developed by Ion Storm and published by Eidos Interactive in 2000. Wikipedia. Check out the theme:

diegesis
9, "Christian weight-loss program"

Dieter
124 Gabriel Ice's roommate at Carnegie Mellon U.; playing bagpipes 451;

Dixie Mafia
215

Dizzy, Uncle
See "Cubitts, Dwayne Z."

Dōgen
121 - Dōgen Zenji was a Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher born in Kyōto. He founded the Sōtō school of Zen in Japan after travelling to China and training under Rujing, a master of the Chinese Caodong lineage.

Don Giovanni
418 - Marx Brothers' version of the Mozart opera

Dönitz & Hitler, 1945

234 - (1891-1980) At the start of World War II, he was the senior submarine officer in the German Navy. In January 1943, Dönitz achieved the rank of Großadmiral (Grand Admiral); On 30 April 1945, after the death of Adolf Hitler and in accordance with Hitler's last will and testament, Dönitz was named Hitler's successor as Staatsoberhaupt (Head of State), with the title of Reichspräsident (President) and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces. Wikipedia entry

"Don't Stop Believing"
61, 149 - Reference to this lyric of the Journey tune from 1981:

Strangers, waiting, up and down
the boulevard
Their shadows searching in the night
Streetlight people, living just to
find emotion

Hiding, somewhere in the night

DOPE
Train Wreck, 69; Lucas & Justin, 74; cannabis in Wall of Silence, 85; doper's memory, 163; roaches, 219;

Dorval
88 Dorval is an on-island suburb on the island of Montreal in southwestern Quebec, Canada.

Dotty
See "Windust, Dotty"

Dragonball Z
68, Prince Vegeta, Goku and Gohan, Zarbon;

Driscoll
See "Padgett, Driscoll"

Droolin' Floyd Womack
190 fictional country singer

DSM
14 - Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, published by the American Psychiatric Association,provides a common language and standard criteria for the classification of mental disorders.

duck stamps
13 - Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamps, commonly known as “Duck Stamps,” are pictorial stamps produced by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. They are not valid for postage. Originally created in 1934 as federal licenses required for hunting migratory waterfowl, Federal Duck Stamps have a much larger purpose today. The first Federal Duck Stamp (1934-1935). Federal Duck Stamps are vital tools for wetland conservation. Ninety-eight cents out of every dollar generated by the sale of Federal Duck Stamps goes directly to purchase or lease wetland habitat for protection in the National Wildlife Refuge System.

duked in
2 - involved or entangled, or to include; 129,

Dunne, Irene
153 - (December 20, 1898 – September 4, 1990), an American film actress and singer of the 1930s, 1940s and early 1950s. Dunne was nominated five times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, for her performances in Cimarron (1931), Theodora Goes Wild (1936), The Awful Truth (1937), Love Affair (1939) and I Remember Mama (1948). She was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1958. She had a rather shrill voice and a very fast vibrato.

Dynasty
14 - TV soap opera that ran from 1981-89; Alexis and Kristle, 237;

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