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Chic is less than meets the ear

Jim Farber, Rolling Stone, 19 April 1979

NEW YORK — The Barnum Room is a disco where any man who dresses like a woman can feel like a star. Even on this snowy night, the place is filled with Marlene Dietrich types, porky Totie Fields clones and sundry Angie Bowies, all circling around the host/hostess, Eve, who looks like Jean Harlow after an auto wreck.

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