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Back to the ’50s

In today’s Zippy, Zerbina is fixated on Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and the recent movie about it (on this blog, here), and she and Zippy consider recapturing the ’50s:

Note the stereotypes of beatnik slang in “Like, gone, baby”.

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