Real cities have something else, some individual bony structure under the muck. Los Angeles has Hollywood – and hates it. It ought to consider itself damn lucky. Without Hollywood it would be a mail order city. Everything in the catalogue you could get better somewhere else. – Raymond Chandler, The Little Sister.
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Stephen Loosley is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the United States Study Centre.
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