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Jon Caramanica uses the word "dirtbag" five times in his review of Surface to Air. But that doesn't mean he's not impressed: "Take the beat-up black leather jacket. Twenty bucks will get you one in any thrift store between the coasts; wear it to a fancy party and seem charming, dangerous, someone to know. When you’re ready to host the fancy party, though, there will be S2A’s outrageous black bomber...I didn’t buy it, but knowing it exists lets me put my Halloween plans to go as Olivier Zahm into motion." [NYT]
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