moded adj.— «I asked the males in my class, “What’s the first thing you guys do when you’re together discussing a ‘freak’ or a ‘fox?’ You ask, “Hey, what she look like?…Oh, man! She’s real fine, man. She’s light...
49er Taiwanese n.— «They are Taiwanese, multi-generational natives of the island formerly known as Formosa. They do not want to be confused with so-called “49er Taiwanese”—a reference to the Nationalist supporters who arrived...
Orange Curtain n.— «Roughly halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego, it is a place to which people tired of city life are reputed to retreat—to surround themselves with the locally renowned “Orange Curtain,” as if with a...
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...
Orange Curtain n.— «Tom Johnson, ironically an L.B.J. protégé, was brought in from a Texas farm team in 1980 to become Times publisher with the specific mission of penetrating the Orange curtain.» —by Mike Davis City...
Orange Curtain n.— «What of the stereotype of the unsophisticated shopper who lives “behind the Orange curtain?” » —“Orange County Opulence at Two Store-Opening Galas” by Jeannine Stein Los Angeles...