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Absolutely Revolting
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Trading Posts

'Trading Posts' by Michael Johnson

by Michael Johnson •
February–March 1986, no. 78

Are we in Sydney or Singapore this January? Tinsel Town gives off the same driving ram, the same steamy conditions as the city-state shaking on its financial foundations. Some days of course the sun shines, the beaches are bright with bikinied or semi-bikinied naiads and the surf patrols strut. However, it is Tinsel Town as described by its literati that has kicked the year off with a bang.

 


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