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Chas de Whalley, Sounds, 3 December 1977
"LIVING in Bloomington," considers Rich Stim, "Is like living in a hermetically sealed mayonnaise jar." And you might be excused thinking he was talking out of one too, for his voice is thin, distant, metallic and muffled.
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