As usual the canvases were old potboilers, sealed with rabbit-skin glue, and sometimes underpainted with assorted rude words.
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Rather than scraping down the old potboilers he bought in junk shops, he simply cleaned them with alcohol and reprimed them with a layer of rabbit-skin glue.
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Across the decades the capital has inspired potboilers and sizzling romances, but it was not until the 1980s, when London was booming again, that the city itself returned to centre stage.
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