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  • He gave life to teenage cavemen and candy-stripe nurses.

    Roger Corman: Scorsese, Stallone, Sayles, and other A-listers talk about the B-movie king | EW.com 2009

  • Freed from the candy-stripe minimalism of the White Stripes, the Dead Weather is an overdubbed Gothic funhouse version of your favorite Bachman-Turner Overdrive album -- you know, that one you're embarrassed to admit you bought.

    Shawn Amos: Play > Skip: New Music for May 11 2010

  • An oversized teddy bear in candy-stripe T-shirt menacingly cuddles an old-time English bobby; a children's educational figure spills its anatomical innards.

    This week's new exhibitions Robert Clark 2010

  • A fun candy-stripe T-shirt would dazzle just as brightly!

    Before You Put That On Lloyd Boston 2005

  • A fun candy-stripe T-shirt would dazzle just as brightly!

    Before You Put That On Lloyd Boston 2005

  • A fun candy-stripe T-shirt would dazzle just as brightly!

    Before You Put That On Lloyd Boston 2005

  • "Will do," said Eleanor, adding a cheerful "goodbye" be­fore going through to the back porch to find her padded candy-stripe jacket and designer walking boots.

    Fox Evil Walters, Minette 2002

  • Maybe he mistook my candy-stripe undies for the real thing.

    Roc and a Hard Place Anthony, Piers 1995

  • Neither did I observe that you wore a different color of panty every day, including tasteless candy-stripe and polka-dot with no material in the dots, in contrast to the more conservative matching herringbone undergarments you have on now.

    Roc and a Hard Place Anthony, Piers 1995

  • Neither did I observe that you wore a different color of panty every day, including tasteless candy-stripe and polka-dot with no material in the dots, in contrast to the more conservative matching herringbone undergarments you have on now.

    Roc and a Hard Place Anthony, Piers 1995

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