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When Lucas Samaras was a small boy in Macedonia, his father was the village furrier. "I spent a couple of summers in the business to find out what it was all about," he recalls. "Part of it was to stretch wet skins, fur down, on a board and pin the edges down. Later, when the skin is dry, you remove the pins and the skin is hard." In some ways this fragment of memory suggests the works of art Samaras was to make in adulthood: the pins, the textures, the extreme sensual contrasts (soft hair against the stink of tanning...
...petal oil, which move fast on the streets back in Warsaw or Lodz. East Europeans who visit the Soviet Union commonly report, as does one Pole: "The Russians are literally willing to buy the shirt off your back." Poles, Czechs and East Germans return freighted with Russian cameras and fur caps for the local market. Vacationing Hungarians find that their most reliable moneymaker is their salami...
...grays in favor of the baby pinks, brilliant yellows and other bright pastels usually reserved for spring. To top off the show, Smith's 19-year-old sister Doris diddy-bopped out in a 1972 bridal outfit: a strapless white Lurex gown worn with a white fake-fur jacket and a gauzy veil with a feather stuck in the side...
Then a second quirk of nature suggested another method. Like cats, vampires lick themselves to clean their reddish-brown fur, and they are as clubby as monkeys, eagerly grooming each other. One researcher reasoned that it would be effective to catch a few vampires, daub them with diphenadione, then release them to return home and bleed to death-and incidentally poison their grooming partners...
...fine sketches of such things as Indian attacks and French settlements. The drawings seem remarkably realistic, although he was not above sketching in an occasional palm tree on the shores of Lake Champlain. Morison roundly deals with the foolishness of the French crown, the vagaries of the fur trade, the hardihood of explorers (imagine mosquitoes swarming inside your steel breastplate) and the rigors of Indian cuisine...