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...hard either to dislike his work (it is too educated and, often, too funny for that) or be really moved by it (for the same reasons). It is ideal decor for the early '80s, revivalism tempered by well-placed clues of irony. It is chic, like a Fendi fur with metaphysical yearnings. Chia can run up a good-looking, hyperactive surface-all those squiggles out of Cy Twombly and the flecks of color applied in an ornamental parody of futurist "divisionism" are cute as kittens. And his parodical reach is so broad as to disarm hostility...
Modern nations as well as primitive tribes may try to repeat their primordial events and look for escape into sacred time. It is a dangerous passage. Hitler's 1,000-year Reich, the tribe of fur-clad Übermenschen with Aryan fire in their eyes, lasted for twelve years. Hitler meant to inject his vulgar sacred time into profane time, but the sacred can never intrude for more than an instant. Any longer, and the results are monstrous...
...that new sewing machine/ Secondhand clothes, I'm wearing secondhand clothes/ I sure hope Ed Meese sews." Among those cheering in the audience was Husband Ronald Reagan, 71, who laughed harder than anyone else, it seemed, when his wife accompanied the lines "Even my trench coat with fur collar/ Ronnie bought for ten cents on the dollar/ The china is the only thing that's new" by smashing a replica of a White House china plate on the floor...
...worst of dames." But, the son concludes, that summary is inaccurate: "She was good at just about everything." Yet this, too, is insufficient. He seeks further definition in 1977, when he journeys to Hawaii to replay house guest to Clare, now half-blinded by cataracts, living in "a fur-lined rut" but still capable of casting her spell...
Giorgio Armani, the Italian designer who has been placing increasing emphasis on skins since he first used them in his 1976 collection, explains: "Leather now has sex appeal. The difference between leather and fur is that fur is just a dead animal one carries around, while leather falls and folds on the body to become a second skin...