BEg2 ch 12 babe in the window?

[Mark Kohut]

>From a Mickey Spillane novel called *Killing Town*......which also has the
phrase 'black as night" which
some have said might be what Basnight (Lew) means:


"And maybe, doing that, I caught a few more glimpses of the babe in the
window. Just maybe. There was dirt caked in the stubble of my beard and
ground into my scalp. My hands and face must have been as black as the
night itself, ..."

And, there is another use of that phrase in an Ebony magazine story from
1985. Street dialogue by some dudes in fancy cars...
 ...."D's if they drove their new 2000 Porsches under the Golden Arches
(Cadillacs, Lincolns, Mercedes-Benz' and BMWs having become passe). There,
one is likely to hear the following dialogue: "Man, that babe in the window was
fresh!"

On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 3:52 AM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Tallis: “I’m supposed to be the comptroller, but when I bring any of it up
> with Gabe, he gets evasive. I’m beginning to feel like the babe in the
> window.”
>
> Is “babe in the window” a thing?
>
>
> Paucity of Google results, like 10 references to the same line in a song by
> Coffee Boi which didn’t come out till 2018 -
>
> And 1 to a cartoon of a “babe” (attractive woman) standing in a window and
> making a naive comment about the neighbor’s interest in telescopes
>
> https://www.ebay.com/itm/362719091129
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