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| | Guardian | No more screws: we cater for tanga-addicted sexollectuals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | The venerable Belle Epoque complex on the banks of the Seine, with its whiplash staircase and stunning glass roof, for nearly a century the least pretentious, most chaotic and, to be suitably partisan about it, most useful of Parisian department stores, is no more. |
 | | Nor bolts, nor nails, and by the end of the year you won't be able to buy wood, paint, hacksaws, tape-measures or those handy things you put in the wall to stop the screws (which you can't buy either) from coming out. |
 | | All this is a grave shock to many of La Samar's customers, but that probably doesn't matter because they were all getting on a bit. |
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