Word: cocacolo
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Dates: during 1955-1955
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Atomic Pineapples. What makes a cocacolo? They must be students, says Semana, and from the well-to-do suburbs. They wear blue jeans, sweaters and moccasins (though mostly at home), they must dance well, and "cultivate at least five of the following tastes : comics, spaceship adventure books, U.S. jazz, iced soft drinks, the movies, the radio, sports, chewing gum or hot-rods." Most notably, they must know the vocabulary. Samples: "phantasmagoric," "atomic" or "pyramidal" (for great), "pineapple" and "mango" (for a kiss), "curse of the green turkey buzzard" and "horror, horror, three times horror!" (as all-purpose exclamations of surprise...
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