Word: berti
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time roughly between When the Kissing Had to Stop and this side of 1984. Only the lewdies (the old) read any more and "newspapers not being read much neither." There is universal social security. The millicents (police) are everywhere. Russia is the dominant influence (the pop singers are Berti Laski and Johnny Zhivago), and it is suggested that Alex and his dreadful droogs (gangmates) get their Russian-based special vocabulary by subliminal propaganda. Life for Alex is real horrorshow (just fine-from the Russian kho-rosho?). Alex wears skin-tight black tights, padded pletchoes (shoulders) and real horrorshow boots...