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  • Aladdin is a street-urchin who lives in a large and busy town long ago with his faithful monkey friend Abu.

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  • Jenny Humphrey reinvents herself sophomore year with a Joan Jett haircut, an haute street-urchin style, and makeup that makes her look as though she's been punched in both eyes, and the fashion world suddenly stands up and takes notice.

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  • No street-urchin dared carry more than a couple of pennies on his person, and very few of them had a safe place to cache money.

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  • He leaned forward and ruffled the ragged fringe of her new street-urchin coiffure.

    Lace Shirley Conran 1982

  • He leaned forward and ruffled the ragged fringe of her new street-urchin coiffure.

    Lace Shirley Conran 1982

  • He leaned forward and ruffled the ragged fringe of her new street-urchin coiffure.

    Lace Shirley Conran 1982

  • He leaned forward and ruffled the ragged fringe of her new street-urchin coiffure.

    Lace Shirley Conran 1982

  • He leaned forward and ruffled the ragged fringe of her new street-urchin coiffure.

    Lace Shirley Conran 1982

  • He leaned forward and ruffled the ragged fringe of her new street-urchin coiffure.

    Lace Shirley Conran 1982

  • His fingers moved restlessly, like a street-urchin surveying an automobile and longing to blow its horn.

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