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Orange Curtain

Orange Curtain
 n.— «Los Angeles County is bigger, glitzier, smoggier, and its meaner streets are statistically more dangerous. The stargazers and the starletss, the baby moguls and the legends, live there, clawing for fame and fortune, at least according to those south of the “Orange Curtain.” Conversely, Orange County residents are deemed priggish, plastic, conservative—even “nerdy” by some of the more urbane Los Angelenos.» —by Ann Rule If You Really Loved Me May 15, 1991. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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