Orange Curtain
n.— «Tom Johnson, ironically an L.B.J. protégé, was brought in from a Texas farm team in 1980 to become Times publisher with the specific mission of penetrating the Orange curtain.» —by Mike Davis City of Quartz : Excavating the Future in Los Angeles Nov. 1, 1990. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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