IVIV (1) Some Heavy Combination of Face Ingredients

[Dave Monroe]

"Now she was laying some heavy combination of face ingredients on him
that he couldn't read at all." (IV, Ch. 1, p. 3)


Dear Abby

http://www.uexpress.com/dearabby/
http://news.yahoo.com/entertainment/dear-abby
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dear_Abby


Hancock Park

Hancock Park is a historic and affluent urban neighborhood in Los
Angeles, California.

[...]

Hancock Park was developed in the 1920s, by the Hancock family, with
profits earned from oil drilling in the former Rancho La Brea ....

[...]

After a 1948 Supreme Court decision barring the enforcement of racial
provisions in restrictive covenants, popular jazz pianist and singer
Nat King Cole purchased a house in Hancock Park. The Ku Klux Klan,
still active in Los Angeles well into the 1950s, responded by placing
a burning cross on his front lawn.

[...]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hancock_Park,_Los_Angeles,_California

Vs. ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hancock_Park


"Can't Buy Me Love"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMwZsFKIXa8
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can%27t_Buy_Me_Love
http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/cant-buy-me-love/
http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/cbml.shtml


"'fro pick"

An "Afro" pick, aka a comb for the Afro hairstyle; this doesn't
necessarily mean Doc has an Afro, only that he borrowed one "for
protection" as they generally had fairly sharp metal tines.

http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Chapter_1#Page_3

"Doesn't necessarily mean" doesn't, however SPOILER ALERT? mean Doc
DOESN'T have an afro, now if I could just find again where he's doing
his hair ...


"the Hall of Justice"

A Hall of Justice is an occasional term for a city's police
headquarters, and exists in cities across the United States. In some
cases, the facility may also house courts as well as jails. In some US
cities, the Hall of Justice is called the Justice Center.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall_of_Justice

In Los Angeles the Hall of Justice was the centerpiece of the Los
Angeles County justice system until it was damaged in the Northridge
Earthquake. The historic building was featured on television shows
including Dragnet and Get Smart. More significantly, it was the home
of Los Angeles County courts, the Los Angeles County Coroner, the Los
Angeles County Sheriff's Office, and the Los Angeles County District
Attorney, and was for many years the primary Los Angeles County jail.

Notable residents of the Hall of Justice included Charles Manson and
Sirhan Sirhan. Autopsies performed at the Hall of Justice include
those of actress Marilyn Monroe and the assassinated presidential
candidate and former United States Attorney General Robert Kennedy.

There are restoration plans to again make it the Sheriff's Headquarters

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall_of_Justice#Los_Angeles

Hall of Justice 1922 Allied Architects  |  210 W. Temple Street  |
Downtown Los Angeles  |  California

http://www.you-are-here.com/downtown/hall_of_justice.html

The Hall of Justice is the fictional headquarters of the Super
Friends, in the eponymous animated series. It has subsequently been
incorporated into the DC Comics main shared universe, the DC Universe
as the new headquarters of the Justice League.

[...]

The building's design is based on the Union Terminal building in
Cincinnati, Ohio, once a train station, now a museum

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall_of_Justice_(comics)
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20090325/ENT/903250327


"some heavy combination of face ingredients"

Cf. ...

"Hilarius only made a face at her, one he'd made before. He was full
of these delightful lapses from orthodoxy. His theory being that a
face is symmetrical like a Rorschach blot, tells a story like a TAT
picture, excites a response liek a suggested word ..." (Lot 49, Ch. 1,
p. 18)

http://www.innternet.de/~peter.patti/thomaspynchon-thecryingoflot49.htm


"X-rated Polaroids"

In the United States, the X-rating originally referred to a
non-trademarked rating that indicated a film contained content
unsuitable for minors such as extreme violence or explicit sex and
thus was for adults only.

When the MPAA film rating system began on November 1, 1968 in the
U.S., the X-rating was given to a film by the MPAA if submitted to
them or, due to its non-trademarked status, it could be self-applied
to a film by a distributor who knew beforehand that their film
contained content unsuitable for minors. In the late 1960s to mid
1980s, several mainstream films were released with an X-rating such as
Midnight Cowboy, A Clockwork Orange, Fritz the Cat and Last Tango in
Paris.

Because the X-rating was not trademarked, anybody could apply it to
their films, including pornographers, which many began to do in the
1970s. As pornography began to become chic and more legally tolerated,
pornographers placed an X-rating on their films to emphasize the adult
nature of them. Some even started using multiple X's (i.e. XX, XXX,
etc.) to give the impression that their film contained more graphic
sexual content than the simple X-rating....

Because of the heavy use of the X-rating by pornographers, it became
associated largely with pornographic films

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-rated#United_States
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,318334,00.html

In the early 1960s, Polaroid introduced integral film, which
incorporated timing and receiving layers to automatically develop and
fix the photo without any intervention from the photographer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_film

Polaroid is the name of a type of synthetic plastic sheet which is
used to polarize light.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polaroid

Cf., e.g., ...

Imipolex G

http://www.thomaspynchon.com/gravitys-rainbow/alpha/i.html#imipolex

"film and calculus, both pornographies of flight" (GR, Pt. III, p. 567)

http://books.google.com/books?id=iPDGp7VT8H8C
http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0308&msg=84627
http://www.thomaspynchon.com/gravitys-rainbow/alpha/f.html#film


"Evelle Younger's shop"

Evelle J. Younger, 26th Attorney General

http://caag.state.ca.us/ag/history/26younger.htm

Evelle Jansen Younger (June 19, 1918 – May 4, 1989) was Attorney
General of California from 1971-1979. Prior to that, he was District
Attorney of Los Angeles County 1964-1971. In 1978, he ran for Governor
of California, but lost to incumbent Jerry Brown. Younger was a member
of the Republican Party. Though he was defeated for governor,
Younger's ticket-mate, Mike Curb, won the office of lieutenant
governor. Curb is the last Republican to have served thus far as
California lieutenant governor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelle_Younger