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He emerged into the
gray London street, set his shoulders and walked quickly through the narrow
side roads until he came upon the lively, bustling and loudly-decorated center
of London's fashion world. Situated just behind Oxford Circus, Carnaby Street was
the Mecca for trendy styles in clothing and pop-art posters: at least, that was
the way the British Tourist Association advertised it. The truth of the matter
was that the street had lost almost all of its glamour so far as the in-crowd
was concerned and it appealed nowadays only to foreign tourists and wide-eyed
visitors from the provinces. The place had become little more than a landmark:
a slightly more fashionable monument than Nelson's Column or the Houses of
Parliament.