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Sean O'Hagan, Face, The, 1 April 1992
IT'S EARLY evening in a Russian restaurant somewhere in west London, a place that specializes in vodka – chili vodka, lemon vodka, brandy vodka, even vodka with little shards of gold leaf floating on top.
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