Word: carlo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Seven goddam thousand dollars for this?" Lou took in the whole scene with a sweep of his arm--the superette, the bunker, the parking lot where the '68 Olds sat piled high with Carlo's Advents and his homemade afghan and his old movie posters. "What's so goddam special about this place...
...Carlo had learned enough about the Harvard mystique to take offense at that one, Whaddaya mean what's special he shot back, moving into the type of diatribe they would have loved to hear up at Byerly Hall. You're looking at the oldest-collgein America with the finest-facultyanywhere and thebest-studentbodyaround. It's the people who are important he argued, slowing down a bit as he noticed the cords standing out in Lou's neck, which was purple. It doesn't matter where you live in Harvard, it's who you meet, it's hwat's you learn...
...Carlo had engaged one of the truckers in a Consumer Report analysis of C.B. sets, but Mrs. Lou noticed his eye drifting over the magazine rack. She nudged Lou, who turned on the owner with a new line...
...truckers swallowed funny and Lou glared back, as Carlo realized he would have to go elsewhere forhhis future bouts with the munchies. The snickers worked their way into guffaws and Lou led his troupe out, steam shooting from both ears...
...Chrissake, Dad," Crlo said, and immediately knew he had made amistake. In his family Lou was the only one allowed to take the Lord's Name in vain--it was like a franchise, Carlo knew and you can get in a lot of trouble by messing around with franchises. "I mean, for Pete's sake," he corrected, "it's not that bad. I mean, there are lots of good people here, too. They have these clubs where you can go and it's nice as hell, I mean heck, all you have to do is know somebody in there...