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Kookie

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Kookie
teen idol of 1950s whose character was depicted by slick shirts, tight pants, and “wet look” hairstyle. [TV: “77 Sunset Strip” in Terrace, II, 282–283]


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Although the town itself is really the main character, among its colorful denizens are young Cissy Sissney and her classmate Kookie Warboys; a Swedish baker who selects his mail-order bride based on the temperature of her hands ("hands cold for pastry must be"); and a wonderfully portrayed (though completely illiterate) schoolteacher who perforce instructs her class in lighting wet kindling and plucking prairie falcons.
Then I must say--as I was watching the cars go by--I started having kookie ideas.
After first hitting stores in October, Get Kookie has been selling steadily, and Pasarow expects a big boost when the Wal-Mart agreement is completed.
 
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