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Where fashion in clothes, bodily adornment, and music are concerned, it is the underclass that increasingly sets the pace. Never before has there been so much downward cultural aspiration.

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Anthony Daniels
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: February 21
Actor
Film Actor
Mime Artist
Television Actor
Salisbury
England
Anthony Kingsley Daniels
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Adornment
Clothes
Downward
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Music
Increasingly
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