The Orlons: Wah Watusi and South Street
Gene Sculatti, Collector's Choice, 2010
IF THEY'RE LUCKY, most decades get a handlenot right at birth, but usually by the time they grow up a little and let us know what they're about: the Roaring Twenties, Fabulous Fifties, Swinging Sixties. Clever journalists have one year left to come up with some coinage for this first decade of the 21st century (maybe the Awful Aughties?).
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