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'''cachaça'''<br />
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160; popular Brazilian liquor made from fermented sugarcane juice, unlike Rum which is made from molasses. The caipirinha is the most famous cocktail using it these days.
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'''Cadillac'''<br />
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5; 1959 Eldorado Biarritz ragtop - Shasta's car
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'''''Call Me Madam'''''<br />
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'''Cab driver Rapture'''<br />
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1950 musical with a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse and music and lyrics by Irving Berlin. A satire on politics and foreign affairs that spoofs America's penchant for lending billions of dollars to needy countries, it centers on Sally Adams, a well-meaning but ill-informed socialite widow who is appointed US Ambassador to the fictional European country of Lichtenburg. While there, she charms the local gentry, especially Cosmo Constantine, while her press attache Kenneth Gibson falls in love with Princess Maria; "You're Not Sick, You're Just in Love" sung by Ethel Merman, 247
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123 - "today's the day"
  
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'''Campbell, Glen (b. 1936)'''<br />
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[[File:Perl-Camel2.jpg|right|175px|The Perl Camel]]'''Camel Book'''<br />
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American country pop singer, guitarist and occasional actor. He is best known for a series of hits in the 1960s and 1970s ("By the Time I Get to Phoenix," "Wichita Lineman"), as well as for hosting a television variety show called The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour on CBS television; 331
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74, The Camel has been the symbol of Perl since its appearance on the cover of the first edition of Programming Perl. O'Reilly Media, Inc. maintains the trademark on the use of camel in association with Perl.
  
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'''canasta'''<br />
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'''Camp Tewattsirokwas'''<br />
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215; Spanish for "basket," a card game originating in Uruguay, where players attempt to make melds of 7 cards of the same rank, and "go out" by playing all cards in their hand and discarding. It is commonly played by two players with two standard decks of cards, but many variations exist for 3- and 4-player games or teams.
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456 - fictional NY summer camp started by the fictional Gimelmans, and the name is actually Mohawk for "firefly"
  
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'''"Can't Buy Me Love"'''<br />
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'''CAPITALISM'''<br />
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3; [[B#beatles|Beatles]] song, from the 1964 film ''A Hard Day's Night''
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post-late capitalism, 138; vulture capitalists, 147; pyramid racket, 161; late capitalism & the Deep Web, 241; late fuckin capitalism, 308; 318; 340; anticapitalist, 320; late-capitalism, 379;
  
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'''Canter's Delicatessen'''<br />
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'''Carnegie Mellon'''<br />
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126; Times have changed.  [http://www.cantersdeli.com/ Canter's] is no longer a "hippie-friendly" deli at 419 N. Fairfax.
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54, where Ice attended college, maybe;
  
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'''Carrere, Tia'''<br/>
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poster of, 355; Tia Carrere (b. 1967) is an American actress, model, voice artist, and singer who obtained her first big break as a regular on the daytime soap opera General Hospital.
  
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'''Carillo, Leo (1880-1961)'''<br />
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78; Leopoldo Antonio Carrillo (August 6, 1880 – September 10, 1961), was an actor, vaudevillian, political cartoonist, and conservationist, in Santa Monica, CA. He played stereotypical latins. He played Pancho on the 1950s TV show, ''The Cisco Kid''. As used here, "Leo Carillo" probably refers to Leo Carrillo State Park, west of Malibu on the Pacific Coast Highway, named in his honor for his conservation services to California; "night cricket" 130
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85, designed DeepArcher splash screen; 285;
  
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'''Carmine & the Cal-Zones'''<br />
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'''Ceres Cafe'''<br />
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228; band in Nine of Diamonds, in Las Vegas; "Just the Lasagna (Semi-Bossa Nova)" 229;
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23, Chicago
  
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'''Carol'''<br>
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'''CFE'''<br />
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47; see [[M#carolmerrill|Merrill, Carol]]
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17 – Certified Fraud Examiner
  
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'''cars'''<br />
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[[File:cheongsam.jpg|left|100px]]'''cheongsam'''<br />
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1959 Eldorado Biarritz ragtop - Shasta's car, 5; VW buses, woodies, 19; Harley Earl Impala, 76; "1949 Mercury woodie" driven by "zombies" 133; motorcycles, 141; Luz's "red SS396" Super Sport Chevy, 143; Boris' "'46 Dodge Power Wagon" 149; Eldorado, 151; Electra Glide shovelhead, 153; Wolfgang "ten-year-old Mercedes sedan with a roof panel" 175; Excaliburs and Ferraris, 177; Doc's '64 Dodge Dart, 180; Jaguars and Porsches, 180; 1934 Hispano-Suiza J12, 184; Falcons, Nova, VDub, 184; 216; '69 Camarro, 218; '62 Bonneville, 223; Ford Rancheros, ancient T-Birds and Chevy Nomads, 228; F-100s and Chevy Apaches, 236; Morgans, Cobra 289s and '62 Bonnevilles, "supernatural DeSoto" 298; Lincoln Continental, '65 Impala, 328; '59 Cadillac hearse (as depicted on the novels dust jacket), 329; Bigfoot's "Cherry Bomb Glasspack" 330; Vibrasonic (Made by Motorola, this device was connected to a car radio to add reverb), 335; Falcon, 335; 442 Olds, 338; "'53 Buick Estate Wagon, the last woodie that ever rolled out of Detroit" 349; Stingray, 369; See [[Cars_mentioned_in_Bleeding_Edge|Cars Mentioned in ''Bleeding Edge'']]...
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22 - a body-hugging one-piece Chinese dress for women (see left)
  
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'''Castro, Fidel (b. 1926)'''<br />
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'''Champagne Lounge'''<br />
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One of the primary leaders of the Cuban Revolution, the Prime Minister of Cuba from February 1959 to December 1976, and then the President of the Council of State of Cuba until his resignation from the office in February 2008. He is currently the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba; 95
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223 - A champagne room (also called a champagne lounge, or champagne court) is a specialized VIP Room service offered by gentleman's clubs where a customer can purchase time (usually in half-hour increments) with an exotic dancer in a private room on the premises. Depending on the quality of the club, these rooms, which are typically away from the hustle and bustle of the main club, are generally well decorated and usually appointed with a private bar. Clubs sell champagne by the glass or by the bottle for both the dancer and the customer. Some clubs also offer a food and/or cigar service.
  
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'''Chamberlain, Wilt (1936-1999)'''<br />
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'''Chazz'''<br/>
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Nicknamed Wilt the Stilt, The Big Dipper, and Chairman of the Boards, was an American professional NBA basketball player for the Philadelphia/San Francisco Warriors, the Philadelphia 76ers and the Los Angeles Lakers; and also played for the Harlem Globetrotters. The 7 foot 1 inch Chamberlain, who weighed 250 lbs as a rookie before bulking up to 275 lb and eventually over 300 lb with the Lakers, played the center position and is widely considered one of the greatest and most dominant players in the history of the NBA; 4
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See "Larday, Chazz"
  
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'''''Champion'' (1949)'''<br />
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'''Cheech & Chong'''<br/>
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The film in which actor Kirk Douglas, playing a selfish boxer, established himself as a Tough Guy. An American ''film noir'', ''Champion'' is a drama filmed in black-and-white, and recounts the struggles of boxer "Midge" Kelly fighting his own demons while working to achieve success in the boxing ring; 336
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'''Channel View Estates'''<br />
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'''''Chercher le geek'''''<br />
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8; Mickey Wolfmann's "chipboard horror" housing development; ''Channel View Estates:'' suggests countless single-family homes, each  with a television  for viewers to flip through the channels.<br>
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88 - French: "look for the geek"
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From the Oxnard Press Courier, May 8, 1970:<br>
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[http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh24/redbarnlane/cie.jpg Channel Island Estates ad] <br>
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[[File:Channel_Island_Estates.jpg]]<br />
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'''Chantays'''<br />
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37; "Pipeline" 124;
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'''Charlie the Tuna'''<br />
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The cartoon mascot tuna for StarKist Tuna, was created by Tom Rogers of the Leo Burnett Agency after StarKist hired Leo Burnett in 1961. StarKist Tuna is the name of a brand of tuna; 119
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'''Charlock, Clancy'''<br />
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146; Glen Charlock's sister; tending bar in Inglewood, 214; screwing with Tariq Khalil, 288
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'''Charlock, Glen'''<br />
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'''Chipmunks, The'''<br />
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15; "Aryan Bro" in prison with Tariq working as a body guard for Mickey Wolfmann; murdered, 23; and the Wolfmann raid, 85; footage of his murder, 142; 247; details from Tariq Khalil, 290; 319-320; [[Plants of Bleeding Edge| See: Plants of Bleeding Edge]]
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"Me, I want a hula hoop" 124, line from their hit "Hula Hoop (The Christmas Song"); "Al-vinnn?" 127;
  
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'''Chateau Marmont'''<br />
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158; a landmark from 1920s-era Hollywood where John Barrymore and Errol Flynn held inebriated court in the baronial living room. Greta Garbo regularly checked in as Harriet Brown, and Jim Morrison was one of many celebrities to call this home in later years. John Belushi overdosed in Bungalow #2.
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[http://www.frommers.com/destinations/losangeles/H32788.html#ixzz0KP8rslNY&D]
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'''Chatfield, C.C.'''<br />
 
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360; Sauncho Smilax's boss
 
  
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'''Chick Planet Massage'''<br />
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'''Christer'''<br />
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20; a massage parlour located in a "makeshift miniplaza" near Channel View Estates; 76; raid, 141;
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'''Chiffons'''<br />
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'''Chu, Zooey'''<br />
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An all girl group originating from the Bronx area of New York in 1960; "One Fine Day" 224
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61, workstations
  
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'''Chino'''<br />
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'''Chuchu'''<br />
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16; A city in San Bernardino County, east of Los Angeles; also shorthand for the California Institution for Men, a state prison in Chino where Tariq Khalil did time
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'''Chuy's Hideaway'''<br />
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161 Dance club near Vermilyea;
  
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'''Chlorinda'''<br />
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'''Cibaeña, La'''<br />
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91; waitress at Belaying Pin
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103, cafe on Amsterdam where Maxine and Windust go;
  
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'''Chopin'''<br />
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'''CIGARS'''<br />
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The Grande Valse brillante in E-flat major (also called Grande Waltz Brillante), Op. 18 was composed by Frédéric Chopin in 1833. It was first published in 1834 and is Chopin's first waltz composition for solo piano. It is often used as incidental music in Brazilian overdubbings of Warner Bros. cartoons such as Bugs Bunny. Dubbing was made from the original film rolls, which did not provide the voices and background music in separate audio tracks. Lacking the resources to hire an orchestra, voiceover studios re-used recordings of classical pieces which had a similar feel to the pieces used in the original soundtracks; played by Liberace during "one of his shows at the Riviera" 220
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"women named after inexpensive cigars" 22; "smoldering cigar gripped in his teeth? 116; "Cohiba smoke" (a premium cigar), 152; Presidente longneck, 162; Arturo Fuente, 306; 369; 459;
  
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'''choppers'''<br />
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'''Clinton, Hillary'''<br />
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Hope Harlingen's, 36; new false teeth for Coy Harlingen, 300
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86;
  
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'''Chryskylodon Institute'''<br />
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'''Clooney, George'''<br />
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111; upscale rehabilitation facility in Ojai; where Japonica is sent, 171; Greek for "gold fang", 185; Doc visits, 186; 301. Any chance this is a veiled critique or parody of Scientology? cf also Synanon [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synanon]
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'''Cielo Drive'''<br />
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'''COLOR'''<br />
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208; The original home at 10050 Cielo Drive in Benedict Canyon, Los Angeles, California is infamous for being the scene of one of the Manson "family" murders.
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eye-catching yellow, 6; acid-green, 43; electric green, 112; vivid turnip purple, 120; indigo, 125; salmon spot, 152; "big blue eyes" 154; burnt orange and electric orchid, 155; sickly green metallic shade, 173; acid-orange flames, 196; lurid yellow tinge, 198; pale rasberry shirt, 200; handkerchief in deep orchid, 200; bronze-colored cames (a came is a slender grooved lead bar used to hold together the panes in stained glass or latticework windows), 204; verdigris (the common name for a green pigment obtained through the application of acetic acid to copper plates or the natural patina formed when copper, brass or bronze is weathered and exposed to air or seawater over a period of time), 204; wintry gray, 204; strange rarified greenish blue, 205; red and green LEDs, 207; neon aqua, 220; indigo lighting, 221; tangerine shade 232; faded poison green, 241; "incandescent green" 242; "a subdued aubergine shade" 255; "creepy yellows and grime-inflected greens" 258; "sheer taupe pantyhose" 258; "unfamiliar color processes" 259; "blue-green mold" 259; fuchsia and optical green, 275; "deep amber and Czarist red" 280; green and magenta stripes 289; blue and red handguns, 291; midnight blue porkpie hat, 291; Scooby-Doo shades with green lenses, 291; orange suits, 291; red winter wheat, 291; gray-and-burgundy envelope, 295; vivid pink collapse, 302; color-coded bracelets, 303; Eric's pale electric green hair, 304; tiling in ocher, pale blue and faded burgundy, 306; screamingly saturated coral, 309; Poisonous blue masses, 321; neon avocado lounge suit, 361; Otis's silver-and-blue outfit, 366; beige dress, 366; dark blue uniform + gold, 368; blue dress, 369; black and white, 370; indigo shades, 372; "colors too unsafe for hex code" 403;
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mineral tints, 404; SVG Alice Blue, 404; "hex thistle above, buttermilk yellow below" 408; blackened, browned, 410; powder-blue light, 410; black-and-white floral wallpaper, 410; soiled pale brown, 411; "whose color ... you'd have to call faintly bitter" 411; black, 422; "benevolently lighted palette" 428; "acid green shrubbery and indigo pavements" 429
  
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'''Club Asiatique'''<br />
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'''co-opping frenzy'''<br />
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77; in San Pedro; 80; 131; 168
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'''Coddington lens'''<br />
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'''Comprehensive Pizza'''<br />
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286; magnifying glass consisting of a single very thick lens with a central deep groove diaphragm at the equator, thus limiting the rays to those close to the axis, which again minimizes spherical aberration.
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'''Code 7'''<br />
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'''Conkling'''<br/>
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208; this police scanner code stands for "meal break." [http://www.radiolabs.com/police-codes.html]
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'''Code of the Freaks'''<br />
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196; is the "code of ethics" that the sideshow performers in Tod Browning's movie "Freaks" build up among themselves, "to protect them from the barbs of normal people. Their rules are rigidly adhered to and the hurt of one is the hurt of all; the joy of one is the joy of all." [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2jsX_R25LE]
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27 - (March 20, 1914 – November 8, 1968) an American actor and politician. He played police Lt. Thomas Doyle in Alfred Hitchcock's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rear_Window ''Rear Window''] (1954)
  
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'''Cohen's Beauty and Barber Shop'''<br />
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'''Corleone, Michael'''<br />
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127; in East London, where Spotted Dick gets their asymmetric bobs. A reference to Vidal Sassoon, inventor of the asymetric bob "I wanted to be a footballer but my mother insisted I get a profession, so I was apprenticed to a very distinguished hairdresser called Adolph Cohen" [http://english.sem40.ru/jewish_fortune/8333/]
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'''COINTELPRO'''<br />
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'''Cornelia'''<br />
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An acronym for Counter Intelligence Program) was a series of covert, and often illegal, projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at investigating and disrupting dissident political organizations within the United States. The FBI used covert operations from its inception, however formal COINTELPRO operations took place between 1956 and 1971. The FBI's motivation at the time was "protecting national security, preventing violence, and maintaining the existing social and political order"; and Black Nationalists, 74
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63, girl in framed photo on Rocky's desk; 149; 274; having lunch with Maxine at Streetlight People, 349;
  
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'''Collins family'''<br />
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'''Crash of '29'''<br />
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128; vampires in TV show ''Dark Shadows''
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'''Crazy Eddie t-shirt'''<br />
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(seems to be an important word in this novel) 2, 54 ("Kriechen" means "to creep"), 112, 160, 251, 351, 384, 414, 415<br/>
  
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'''Cruz, Celi'''<br />
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This surf band is also in [http://vineland.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/Chapter_3#Page_22 ''Vineland''], being where Zoyd Wheeler was living "shortly after Reagan was elected governor" (which would be shortly after January 3, 1967) with "elements" of the band. In ''Bleeding Edge'', Elfmont and Scott Oof, Doc's cousin, are in the band; 43
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164 - (October 21, 1925 – July 16, 2003) a Cuban-American salsa performer. One of the most popular salsa artists of the 20th century, she earned twenty-three gold albums and was renowned internationally as the "Queen of Salsa" as well as "La Guarachera de Cuba." Cruz spent much of her career living in New Jersey, and working in the United States and several Latin American countries. Leila Cobo of Billboard Magazine once said "Cruz is indisputably the best known and most influential female figure in the history of Cuban music."
  
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A Berkeley-based rock band most widely known for musical protests against the Vietnam War, from 1966 to 1971; Shasta in a band T-shirt, 1, 261;
 
  
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The phrase originally comes from Alexander Dumas' 1857 play ''Camille: The Lady of the Camellias'' in which Monsieur Duval tells Camille, "Courage, Camille, Courage."
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'''Curtis'''<br />
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291 - Local kid, with Gridley
  
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Also, a line masterfully delivered by Bob Hope as radio personality and craven muckraker Lawrence Lawrence Lawrence in the 1940 horror-comedy ''The Ghost Breakers''. It is also used in Pynchon's 2006 novel [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_336-357#Page_345 ''Against the Day'', on page 345]
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'''Czornak, Heidi'''<br />
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22, and Horst; purse drama, 212; Poison fragrance, 231; affair with Conkling, 237;
  
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198; was a self-taught pianist who was one of the architects of the "Nashville Sound." His distinctive piano style can be heard on recordings by Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison and many others. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003. [http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/floyd-cramer]
 
  
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Cab driver Rapture
123 - "today's the day"

The Perl Camel
Camel Book

74, The Camel has been the symbol of Perl since its appearance on the cover of the first edition of Programming Perl. O'Reilly Media, Inc. maintains the trademark on the use of camel in association with Perl.

Camp Tewattsirokwas
456 - fictional NY summer camp started by the fictional Gimelmans, and the name is actually Mohawk for "firefly"

CAPITALISM
post-late capitalism, 138; vulture capitalists, 147; pyramid racket, 161; late capitalism & the Deep Web, 241; late fuckin capitalism, 308; 318; 340; anticapitalist, 320; late-capitalism, 379;

Carnegie Mellon
54, where Ice attended college, maybe;

Carrere, Tia
poster of, 355; Tia Carrere (b. 1967) is an American actress, model, voice artist, and singer who obtained her first big break as a regular on the daytime soap opera General Hospital.

Cassidy
85, designed DeepArcher splash screen; 285;

Ceres Cafe
23, Chicago

CFE
17 – Certified Fraud Examiner

Cheongsam.jpg
cheongsam

22 - a body-hugging one-piece Chinese dress for women (see left)

Champagne Lounge
223 - A champagne room (also called a champagne lounge, or champagne court) is a specialized VIP Room service offered by gentleman's clubs where a customer can purchase time (usually in half-hour increments) with an exotic dancer in a private room on the premises. Depending on the quality of the club, these rooms, which are typically away from the hustle and bustle of the main club, are generally well decorated and usually appointed with a private bar. Clubs sell champagne by the glass or by the bottle for both the dancer and the customer. Some clubs also offer a food and/or cigar service.

Chazz
See "Larday, Chazz"

Cheech & Chong
475

Chercher le geek
88 - French: "look for the geek"

chess
59;

Chipmunks, The
"Me, I want a hula hoop" 124, line from their hit "Hula Hoop (The Christmas Song"); "Al-vinnn?" 127;


Christer
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Chu, Zooey
61, workstations

Chuchu
70

Chuy's Hideaway
161 Dance club near Vermilyea;

Cibaeña, La
103, cafe on Amsterdam where Maxine and Windust go;

CIGARS
"women named after inexpensive cigars" 22; "smoldering cigar gripped in his teeth? 116; "Cohiba smoke" (a premium cigar), 152; Presidente longneck, 162; Arturo Fuente, 306; 369; 459;

Clinton, Hillary
86;

Clooney, George
212

COLOR
eye-catching yellow, 6; acid-green, 43; electric green, 112; vivid turnip purple, 120; indigo, 125; salmon spot, 152; "big blue eyes" 154; burnt orange and electric orchid, 155; sickly green metallic shade, 173; acid-orange flames, 196; lurid yellow tinge, 198; pale rasberry shirt, 200; handkerchief in deep orchid, 200; bronze-colored cames (a came is a slender grooved lead bar used to hold together the panes in stained glass or latticework windows), 204; verdigris (the common name for a green pigment obtained through the application of acetic acid to copper plates or the natural patina formed when copper, brass or bronze is weathered and exposed to air or seawater over a period of time), 204; wintry gray, 204; strange rarified greenish blue, 205; red and green LEDs, 207; neon aqua, 220; indigo lighting, 221; tangerine shade 232; faded poison green, 241; "incandescent green" 242; "a subdued aubergine shade" 255; "creepy yellows and grime-inflected greens" 258; "sheer taupe pantyhose" 258; "unfamiliar color processes" 259; "blue-green mold" 259; fuchsia and optical green, 275; "deep amber and Czarist red" 280; green and magenta stripes 289; blue and red handguns, 291; midnight blue porkpie hat, 291; Scooby-Doo shades with green lenses, 291; orange suits, 291; red winter wheat, 291; gray-and-burgundy envelope, 295; vivid pink collapse, 302; color-coded bracelets, 303; Eric's pale electric green hair, 304; tiling in ocher, pale blue and faded burgundy, 306; screamingly saturated coral, 309; Poisonous blue masses, 321; neon avocado lounge suit, 361; Otis's silver-and-blue outfit, 366; beige dress, 366; dark blue uniform + gold, 368; blue dress, 369; black and white, 370; indigo shades, 372; "colors too unsafe for hex code" 403; mineral tints, 404; SVG Alice Blue, 404; "hex thistle above, buttermilk yellow below" 408; blackened, browned, 410; powder-blue light, 410; black-and-white floral wallpaper, 410; soiled pale brown, 411; "whose color ... you'd have to call faintly bitter" 411; black, 422; "benevolently lighted palette" 428; "acid green shrubbery and indigo pavements" 429

co-opping frenzy
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Comprehensive Pizza
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Conkling
See "Speedwell, Conkling"

Corey, Wendell
27 - (March 20, 1914 – November 8, 1968) an American actor and politician. He played police Lt. Thomas Doyle in Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window (1954)

Corleone, Michael
151

Cornelia
63, girl in framed photo on Rocky's desk; 149; 274; having lunch with Maxine at Streetlight People, 349;

Crash of '29
4

Crazy Eddie t-shirt
6, worn by Dizzy

creep
(seems to be an important word in this novel) 2, 54 ("Kriechen" means "to creep"), 112, 160, 251, 351, 384, 414, 415

Cruz, Celi
164 - (October 21, 1925 – July 16, 2003) a Cuban-American salsa performer. One of the most popular salsa artists of the 20th century, she earned twenty-three gold albums and was renowned internationally as the "Queen of Salsa" as well as "La Guarachera de Cuba." Cruz spent much of her career living in New Jersey, and working in the United States and several Latin American countries. Leila Cobo of Billboard Magazine once said "Cruz is indisputably the best known and most influential female figure in the history of Cuban music."


Cubitts, Dwayne Z. ("Dizzy")
6, "gizmo retailer", aka Uncle Dizzy

Curtis
291 - Local kid, with Gridley

Czornak, Heidi
22, and Horst; purse drama, 212; Poison fragrance, 231; affair with Conkling, 237;


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