Taki Taki

A nicer side of Nero

Peter Ustinov as the Emperor Nero, who sheltered the homeless and championed the lower classes [Photo: Granger Historical Picture Archive / Alamy Stock Photo] 
issue 19 June 2021
New York

I haven’t felt such shirt-dripping, mind-clogging wet heat since Saigon back in 1971. The Bagel is a steam bath, with lots of very ugly people walking around in stages of undress that would once upon a time have embarrassed that famed stripper Lili St Cyr. How strange that very pretty girls do not shed their clothes as soon as the mercury hits triple figures, but less fortunate ones do even if the number is a cool 80.

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